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How to counter Archers in Water maps

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Hi,
I think on land Archers are prety well balanced. But in water maps Archer is a stand alone unit.
If you just look at amph bots, what unit is able to counter Archers?
Ducks die to splash dmg. Scallop is doing a nice job, but is too slow and too expensive. Buoys can't shoot them under water. Same for Grizzly. I just saw a match of two high level players one of them Just spamed Archers the other one tried a mix of units. The Archers won. After that game I tried Archer spam too. It worked. I don't know if this is just a problem in amph vs. amph or in whole sea balance. But it can't be wanted that you can win games with a single unit spam. Those who get more metal (Archers) win.
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3 years ago
Sorry for the spelling in headline. (Auto complete) :-(
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3 years ago
There's a patch coming soon that should address this. In the meantime, you have made a fair analysis. More archers. If you want to be the better of the archerbois, use lobsters/limpets to win engagements.
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3 years ago
Just more archers and first strike counts.

Archer has high collective strength simply to its high aoe. Scallop doesn't has a chance. Even if you want to do hit and run method, there isn't any noticeable units that can turn around fast enough to hit a group archers before it deployed. For they can just build grizzly to counter these units from behind archer line.
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Firepluk
3 years ago
Counter Archers and a lot of other water shit by not playing sea maps!
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3 years ago
Scylla is best counter to archer. You just tacnuke their factory.
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3 years ago
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Scylla is best counter to archer. You just tacnuke their factory.

The missiles alone cost more than the factory does.
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Firepluk
3 years ago
Now u counter archers by detriment :P
lob lob lob
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