What's the best unit for Flaming Arrows?

[moderation]

Hmm, thanks for the input. By what would be the use of using Flaming Arrows against Abysians? I'm assuming they would be immune to the 6 AP fire damage, but maybe the hard to measure boost in shield avoidance helps? I guess I will test this later when I get a chance.

[Meglobob]

Longbows are very good, 45 range, decent damage, 2 strategic move, I think and very cheap.

[MaxWilson]

Yep, that's what I was thinking off. Might boost your hit percentage by as much as 50%, depending upon how fatigued the Abysians are. (+3 is usually about a x2 improvement, but the curve is flatter near the middle IIRC, at +/- 0 territory.) I still probably wouldn't rely on crossbows but if you have to, Flaming Arrows might provide a force multiplier.

-Max

[moderation]

Hmm, the manual says Flaming Arrows are magical for the purposes of hitting ethereal units. Does the magical bonus also give +3 precision then?

[Argitoth]

the best unit for flaming arrows is undead archers.

[Endoperez]

Flaming arrows adds 6 points of AP fire damage in addition to the missile itself. The fire damage is magical, missile is not. So the missiles won't get the +2 bonus you get from using magical ranged weapons (the bonus doesn't add to precision, but helps getting a hit any way; check manual for details). However, at leat poison bows' poison effect is applied even when the arrows hit. If it works the same way for Flaming Arrows, the fire damage always hits. It's a bug, even if it only affects poison archers.

[atul]

I was going to say Sticks and Stones for them having 2 attacks per round, but it seems they don't get anything from Flaming Arrows.

At least there's no apparent animation...

[Endoperez]

Yeah, that's unaffected. If you see Edi's database and check weapons, there are weapons under such as "fire boulder", "fire composite bow", "fire javelin" etc that are what Flaming Arrows changes weapons into. One of them is "Fire Bow of War"...