When the battle starts you position your troops as the battlefield requires: usually on a hill if possible.

It works best if you're playing a heavy crossbow/bow army and your strategy is to sit back and let the enemy come to you.

So yeah, please answer weather or not if I should also start looking at power draw as well.Įdit 1: I also wanted to play as a rhodok so my loadout will most likely be: polearm>crossbow>bolt>bolt.įor crossbow you should get the biggest crossbow you can: a siege crossbow for many mods. But now, with a power draw of 5, it was like shooting a gun, the bolt flew so far and so straight. As I shoot away, it just seems so easy as the other times when I only got power draw like 1 or 2, it's just so hard to snipe for long-ranged bolts. Once on my Vaegir play, I went to a rhodok tournament and was given a crossbow. So what are your tips to be better at the crossbow?Īlso, I think the 'power draw' perk also works with crossbows as well.

So now I think I'm gonna challenge myself by playing as a sharpshooter, but before I hence forth and destroy all those who stand in my way with a hail of steel bolts, I figured I'd try to get some advice from any M&B crossbow experts. Now I've done a lot of swadian and rhodok plays but the crossbow is usually considered to me a secondary ranged weapon, even more so than the bow.

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