Is there a niche for Longdead Archers?

[Shangrila00]

Originally Posted by brxbrx

If you have air as well as fire and death, missile protection and wind guide would remedy most of the problems.

Fire/Death doesn't seem to coexist much with air. None of the major F/D nations have A except EA Ermor. LA Man could also get longdead archers through 1/16 judges, but they really don't benefit with how many good archers and crossbows they already have and their inevitable use with flaming arrows, plus how their opponents will definitly stress defence against arrows.

Though if you do get arrow fend, regular xbows and magic bows would be mostly protected from counterattack while longdead archers can still get banished.

@soyweiser: the idea is that their stats are identical to xbows barring the generally useless decay on hit effect, except without the precision bonus or the only 1 shot every 2 rounds limitation. So they're like 20 slightly less precise xbows that run out after only 12 rounds.