Mounted Archer

Mounted Archer
Unit information
Unit type	Archer / Cavalry
Introduced in	Tale of the Dragon
Civilization	Chinese
Age	Heroic Age
Trained at	Stable
Training time	15 seconds
Cost
Wood	75
Gold	55
Population	2
Statistics
Hit points	100
Speed	5.3 feet/second
Line of Sight	20 feet
Range	15 feet
Attack
Hack	-
Pierce	5
Crush	-
Armor
Hack	15%
Pierce	15%
Crush	99%

The Mounted Archer is a Chinese mounted archer unit in Age of Mythology: Tale of the Dragon. Unlike most archers, it has an attack bonus against cavalry.

Attack bonuses

• Cavalry ×3

God bonuses and upgrades

Specific

• Houyi’s Bow (Chang'e) increases attack by 10%.

General

Nü Wa reduces food and gold cost by 10%.

• Medium Stable Soldiers, Heavy Stable Soldiers, and Champion Stable Soldiers all increase LOS by 1 and attack by 10%, and increase hit points by 10%, 15% and 20% respectively.
• Levy Stable Soldiers and Conscript Stable Soldiers decrease training time by 20%.
• Copper Weapons, Bronze Weapons, and Iron Weapons increase attack by 10%.
• Copper Mail, Bronze Mail, and Iron Mail decrease hack vulnerability by 10%.
• Copper Shields, Bronze Shields, and Iron Shields decrease pierce vulnerability by 10%.
• Burning Pitch gives triple damage to buildings and +50% damage to ships.
• Jade Rabbit (Chang'e): increases movement speed by 10%.
• Dragon Scales (Ao Kuang): increases hack armor by 10%.
• Stirrup (Chongli) increases HP by 25%.

Strategy

The Mounted Archer is excellent for hit-and-run tactics against any relatively slow, non-ranged unit. Their speed and ranged attack enables them to keep up with targets trying to get away, even cavalry units. On the downside, it is technically classified as both an archer and a cavalry, and will take additional damage from counter-units of either type.

Changelog

Tale of the Dragon

• Initially, Mounted Archers have 7 pierce damage, deal 200% damage to cavalry, and cost 80 wood and 60 gold. With patch 2.7, they have 5 pierce damage, deal 300% damage to cavalry, and cost 75 wood and 55 gold
• Initially, Mounted Archers got +20% hit points from the Tusk of the Iron Boar Relic instead of +10%. This was fixed in patch 2.7.

Trivia

• Mounted Archers have Track Rating of only 5.0 m/s, so despite being counter cavalry, they are not able to hit most cavalry in movement (for example the Hippikon).

History

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King Wuling of Zhao revolutionized Chinese warfare during the Han dynasty when he officially adopted the tactics and equipment of the Xiongnu people of the steppes: instead of stationing archers in chariots, he enacted military reforms to adopt the use of more versatile cavalry archers. He succeeded in emulating the battlefield successes of the Xiongnu, taking many cities of the neighboring Wuhu state before abdicating in favor of his son in 299 BC.

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Gallery

Player 1 Mounted Archer

Player 2 Mounted Archer

Han period mounted archer

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