Whether in city defense battles or set-piece field battles where both sides faced off, the strategic importance of archers was beyond doubt.
Unlike spellcasters, whose numbers were relatively limited, archers were far more numerous.
As a result, they formed the main force of ranged damage output most of the time.
However, in actual combat, Zong Shen had discovered that archers faced many constraints.
The first was their limited range. Most archers could only fire directly within a range of 150 to 300 meters.
With arcing shots, they could extend that by roughly another 200 to 300 meters.
Even at the absolute maximum of four to five hundred meters, their attack range was somewhat lacking in a siege battle.
Especially under a warfare model like that of the Endless Continent.
They needed a range of at least seven to eight hundred meters to deal effective damage.
The emergence of military formations specialized in enhancing archers had, to a certain extent, solved this problem.
Second, archers of different tiers and series found it difficult to maintain continuous synchronized volleys.
Because of attack speed differences, archers of different types and tiers had completely different firing rates.
Even if they could fire in perfect unison during the first round, discrepancies would emerge after the second.
Unless they deliberately waited and stretched the volley interval to match the slowest firing rate.
Military formations could solve this problem as well.
As long as the archers were of the same tier, they met the requirements; even differing races and classes did not matter.
For example, Avalon's Rangers and the Elf Race's Woodsrunners could be incorporated and reorganized into the same military formation as long as they were of equal tier.
Once the reorganization was complete, they could benefit from the effects granted by the military formation.
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