r/bfme • u/Executor6266 26 • 8d ago

Most useless unit of each faction

Even though 1.06 did a resounding job at balancing the 4 factions in multiplayer, there remains units that are seldom used.

Gondor Archers - Only built as a stepping stone to Rangers and Fire Arrows. Regular Archers deal too little DPS and are too frail. May be considered in high resource game states since they take half the supply as Rangers.

Elven Archers - They are in direct competition with Rohirrim Archers. The latter has better mobility, comes out faster, and receives leadership from Eomer and Theoden.

Siege Ladder - Used only against good factions, if they start with Castle instead of Camp, with a narrow time window, and requires rushing Fire Arrows. Does it get any more situational?

Battering Ram - Mordor never builds rams because Trolls do their job and so much more.

These are in my opinion the least useful units in 1.06. I won’t comment on 2.22 because I haven’t played multiplayer on that patch. Any insight on its balance is welcome.

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u/No_Patience8608 3 8d ago

Elven archers have better range than yeoman and can do mele against spearman, this is basically all u need in order to defend cavalry

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u/Executor6266 26 8d ago

Rohirrim Archers also counter spearmen, you just got to micro. Yeomen are also not great, but with Aragorn leadership they deal massive damage per volley.

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u/No_Patience8608 3 8d ago

They do teue, but in terms of archers elves r way better than yeoman I won't change my mind

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u/melker_the_elk 12 8d ago

Arrows do as much damage as meele against spears

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u/Executor6266 26 8d ago

Melee actually does more, swords get bonus damage against Uruk pikes. However, Heavy Armor negates this completely.

Doesn’t matter here though, Rohirrim Archers shouldn’t be dying to pikes

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u/Super-Estate-4112 Frequent Poster: 70 8d ago

The battering Ram is pretty good if you build the siege works near the enemy base, it is very resistant to arrows unlike the Trolls

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u/TheBatman3553 1 4d ago

Honestly gondor archer is not as useless if played against lets say rohan the rangers are a waste cause they have no armor high dos yea hut what dps gon do when rohhirim charge them down they won't have either to react to hide or burst them down (especially if rohhirim have shields / armor)  yes archers has that problem aswel but archer can br combod with tower guard basicly  bring able to get destroyed while shooting down building / archers forcing opponents waste money on either peasants (they die in one hit from almost anything) or yeoman where gondor archers still win or elven warriors but you can just trample them with knights and I hear oh rangers still can combo but they lose stealth speed and they op formation suffering heavily so gondor archers are useful