it makes no sense to me, specially when archers is more useful due to having longer range and more damage.
Have you seen them? They’re light riders on a mount made of fur. What’s “armored” about that?
Also, balance.
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this is exactly what a player would say, who never have played Reign of Chaos multiplayer, where hutnresses had medium armor (note: in RoC medium armor would take 100% damage from all damage soruces, i.e. nothing would do bonus damage against it).
The combination of beeing relativly tanky, dealing a reasonable amount of damage, able to hit multiple targets AND beeing able to be produced in mass with ease while having no hardcounter against them made them very OP, and in RoC mass huntress was in many cases very hard, if not borderline impossible to beat for some races.
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they are useless as they are when the archers does more damage and takes less. they do have shields and as such: they should take reduced damage from piercing and not increased. i did play multiplayer in reign of chaos but, i never used huntresses, i used other units.
So if they are useless, why do pro/semipro NE players basically always prefer to go for hunts and not for archers, if they are not teching?
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Why is Mountain Giant’s armor Medium?
Why is Scout Tower’s armor Small?
Why are Ogre’s armor type Heavy?
Why do renegade mages have piercing attacks instead of magic?
Why do Cannon Towers have Fortified armor, but all other variants don’t?
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the scout tower is temporary, until you upgrade to a better tower. renegade mages is not a player unit, at least not normally(no reason to balance them). ogres is creeps and not a part of balance. the mountain giants i do not have an explanation for. i tried an army of huntresses against creeps and they got slaughtered. then i tried an army of archers and they slaughtered them. archers does more damage though.
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Like the Lannisters slaughtered the Starks?
hahahaha, i’ll do this thread. one better.
why does unarmored armor exist ? in a game where all the races are meant to go to WAR(craft). 
but whatever, not like its worth to take anything like this seriously.
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It’s all balance over logic, I guess. I’m no melee guy anyway.
Whenever I do create any maps or campaigns, i do usually fix these things to make more sense.
Heavy Armor for Huntress
Fortified Armor for all Human Towers
Heavy armor for Mountain Giants
Unarmored for Ogre’s (except Ogre Lords)
Kobold Geomancer, Apprentice Mage, Renegade wizards, ect all get Magic attacks.
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oh I got it now.
I thought this is a balance whine thread.
But instead it turned out to be a slight deviation from the fantasy destroyed my suspension of disbelieve thread in a game where TAVERNS LITERALLY REANIMATE THE DEAD.
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but taverns have magic beers, that’s a different story.
magic beers do revive people. trust me, iv’e been there.
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You don’t get it. “Unarmoured” is not an Armour type. It is a word. And that word can be whatever. Here, that word is “Unarmoured”. But it could have been whatever.
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“Unarmoured” is a defense type in fact, not just a word.
Because Huntresses’ are “unarmoured” and still have an armor rating higher than 0, they are unarmored, but also aren’t.
“Unarmoured” is just a defense type, and Btw, In the editor and in-game it is spelled as “Unarmored”. PROOF: /media.discordapp.net/attachments/586857814903750656/610472809398796288/unknown.png
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this turned into a balance topic. in my faction war map, i changed the huntress`s armor to medium to match the archer. testing will see how well it works. faction war is the kind of map where people can build massive walls of towers.
I thought huntress was unarmored because of the cat. Could a cat wear armor without getting in the way of its agility? Armor is usually not so agile unless in anime. No matter how heavily armored the huntress is, if they shoot the cat they win.
Looking at the other rider units knight horses are fully covered. Raider wolves have plates so what if the rider is bare so long as the wolf can run forward while armored. Dryad is the same deal as the huntress but I think she would be harder to hit with deer finesse. Maybe I’m thinking of gazelles instead since deers are always getting hit by cars.
Reforged cat have plates though.
Are they still unarmored?
Stupid Mojos guide needs to be updated.
they do have a large shield. that is not exactly what i would call unarmored.