Best Ranged Units

Ranged attack is a powerful thing. With powerful enough ranged attackers, you can end a battle before it even begins by wiping out enemy melee units before they have a chance to close in and strike or destroy the enemy back line ranged units before they can do the same to you.

There are 27 units with a ranged attack in Eador: Masters of the Broken World. I have listed them all below ranked by their ranged attack.

	ALIGN	LVL	HP	RATT
DRAGON	N	4	150	30
GIANT	U	4	100	20
WARLOCK	EI	4	20	18
DEVIL	EI	4	70	15
CATAPULT	N	3	20	12
MAGICIAN	U	3	15	12
BALLISTA	N	2	18	9
SORCERER	U	2	12	9
GIANT SLUG	N	2	40	8
ELF	GC	1	9	7
CENTAUR	N	2	30	7
IMP	EI	1	8	7
CLERIC	G	3	15	6
HORSE ARCHER	N	2	26	6
SHAMAN	U	1	9	6
MEDUSA	N	3	35	6
ASSASSIN	E	2	20	6
BOWMAN	N	1	10	5
HALFLING	G	1	8	5
CROSSBOWMAN	L	1	10	5
MONK	G	2	12	5
THIEF	E	1	13	5
BARBARIAN	U	1	20	5
SLINGER	N	1	10	4
FAIRY	G	1	6	4
BASILISK	N	2	35	3
GIANT SPIDER	N	2	29	3

Strategy

If you're going to go good, elfs are the best place to start. Their ranged attack is quite potent in the early going. Evil players have the imps. Both of these units are deadly from a distance, but will get slaughtered if your front line fails.

In the later stages of the game, alignment won't matter as much -- though devils are a fantastic unit for evil players. Centaurs, slugs, and dragons (all neutral) are crazy awesome not just because they deliver a lot of damage, but because they have plenty of hit points to give -- allowing them time to escape.