: These are high-speed "glass cannons." They are preferred for rushing AI Lords because they can quickly close the distance to walls and towers before defenders can pick them all off [12].
Stronghold: Crusader remains a masterpiece of the RTS genre, largely due to its intricate balance between European and Arabian forces. Understanding unit statistics is the difference between a crushing victory and a humiliating defeat in the desert heat.
Send Slaves to burn down the enemy’s farms and woodcutters. It’s cheap and devastating.
Is there a specific unit you're interested in or perhaps strategies involving these units?
The most broken stat in the game is not damage—it’s attack delay while moving = 0 . Every other archer stops to shoot. Horse archers don’t. Their story is the feigned retreat . You chase them with macemen. They shoot you. You stop. They shoot you. Your army evaporates without landing a single hit. The stat that matters here is "kite efficiency."
: Often cited as the best ranged unit due to having 4x the damage of an archer . They excel at piercing armor, making them the hard counter to Pikemen and Swordsmen. However, they have a shorter range and a slower reload time.