Elven Trueshot

Use

Elven Trueshot have the most impressive stats of any defensive unit. Combined with favorable terrain, their strong attack also makes them the most offense-capable of defensive units. However, they suffer stat penalties attacking cities and attacking or defending in "tight" places such as forests and NPC buildings.

Although they are excellent at defending cities, they also fare poorly defending forest, which is where all Elven accounts are started. The overall performance is still enhanced, but to a lesser degree. All ranged units excel at defending mountainous terrain as well as cities.

Economics

Because ranged units are the Elves' specialty, Elven Trueshot save one leather armour in favor of one beer. Though this certainly eases their production from the bottleneck constraint of leather product, Elves are still overall disadvantaged economically by much heavier reliance on chainmail for all other units. Elves who can supplement their chainmail supply can maintain an effective, balanced army. Elves who cannot will still be able to keep their barracks queue busy thanks to these cheap elite bowmen.

Direct Cost

Gold Primary resource	Beer Basic secondary resource	Bows Basic equipment (resource)	Leather Armour Basic equipment (resource)
3	1	2	1

Base Cost

Wood Natural resource	Clay Natural resource	Iron Natural resource	Food Natural resource	Gold Primary resource
140	20	50	65	16