Chapter 61 Marksman and Flame Archer
After occupying the small shipyard, three types of ships can be produced, of which only one can be attached to the warship.
He can't see the attributes yet. He will have to wait until they are produced to know. However, the functions of these ships can be guessed just by listening to their names.
What interested Xu Lai the most was the small arrow boats, so after the farmers cleaned up the battlefield, Xu Lai left two and sent them to the dock to start production of small arrow boats.
At this time, the golden light of the battle settlement also fell. Xu Lai had not directly killed the target, but he still gained a lot of experience because he was a leader, but he still could not upgrade.
After successively annihilating a large number of cavemen, pirates, evil eyes and other wild monsters, three longbowmen collectively accumulated enough experience.
There are two upgrade directions for longbowmen. One is the level 5 marksman, and the other is also level 5 and is called the flame archer.
The prices for the upgrades in both directions are the same, one is 200 gold, and three are 600 gold.
Advancement in these two directions does not have additional requirements like the advancement of horse archers, so Xu Lai simply picked two archers first, and each advanced to a profession.
Whether they are marksmen or flame shooters, they are still shooters in the final analysis. Unlike at level 2, they either become archers or crossbowmen, which almost directly changes their nature.
As far as Xu Lai is concerned, he still prefers rangers with strong mobility, which is also reflected in the price. Unfortunately, he does not have enough horses at the moment, and there is no one to upgrade to.
[Marksman]: A level 5 marksman unit, each person consumes 1 unit of food per day.
Characteristic 1: Projectile, the marksman can shoot into the sky and use the falling damage of the arrow to attack the target.
It can increase the shooting distance to 500 meters, with a 50% hit reduction and a 70% damage reduction.
Feature 2: Double consecutive arrows, the marksman can fire two arrows continuously each time, and the physical consumption is increased to 3 times.
Feature 3: Marksmanship. Within the marksman's best attack distance, the hit rate is increased to 100% (Priority: Level 3). To activate this effect, 1 second of aiming time is required before each shot.
[Flame Archer]: A level 5 archer unit. Each person consumes 1 unit of food per day and has 300 mana points.
Characteristic 1: Projection, the flame shooter can shoot into the sky and use the falling damage of the arrow to attack the target.
It can increase the shooting distance to 500 meters, with 50% hit reduction and 80% damage reduction.
Characteristic 2: Flame Arrow. The flame archer has the ability to attach flame magic to the arrow. After hitting the target, it will cause an additional 50 points of fire (spell) damage. It has an ignition effect (causing 1-5 points of flame per second). Damage, lasting until the target dies or the fire is extinguished).
Note: Each enchantment of Flame Archer requires 3 seconds of casting time and consumes 30 mana points.
After Xu Lai's non-standard test, whether they are sharpshooters or flame shooters, their optimal shooting ranges are almost the same. Xu Lai estimates that they are all about 150 meters.
After exceeding this distance, the damage will be significantly reduced, and it should be out of the optimal range.
The ultimate range, that is, the range where the two men do not need to raise their bows to the sky, has been increased to 300 meters.
Once this distance advantage takes shape, it can almost crush most long-range units.
After the upgrade, the marksman's weapon was changed to a purple-shirted long bow, and the eagle-feathered arrows were changed to eagle-feathered long arrows. They also came in two big bags, and the number increased to 42 in each bag. Finally, the two-handed sword was upgraded to a two-handed sword, and the body armor was also upgraded, turning into a bearskin armor with stronger defense.
The weapons of the Flame Archer were replaced by the Flame Longbow and Flame Arrow. The attack power is stronger than the Fir Longbow, but weaker than the Purple Shirt Longbow, but both have increased fire damage. effect.
The weapon, the two-handed sword, has also become a flame sword. It is still held by both hands. Its basic attack power is weaker than that of a two-handed sword, and its weight is lighter than that of a two-handed sword. After being enchanted with flames, its power is even stronger than that of a two-handed sword. Some swords.
The flame shooter's armor has not changed much. It is still leather armor, but some fiery red runes have been added.
Because Xu Lai had been instilled with a lot of imperial intelligence, he still had a general understanding of the various levels of the empire's arms.
He knew that the top archer units in the empire were magic archers with various spell abilities and sky archers of varying levels.
This represents two directions of shooters, one is the traditional shooter direction represented by the marksman, and the other is the spell shooter direction with increased spell capabilities and more variability.
The improvement direction of traditional archers is relatively single, which is nothing more than shooting farther and hurting more. At most, they can ensure the hit rate like a sharpshooter and add more changes to the continuous arrows.
The spell archer has stronger battlefield adaptability, the flame arrow can increase damage, the freezing arrow can freeze the target, the lightning arrow is as fast as lightning, etc.
These two branches cannot jump to each other, and Xu Lai is currently unable to cultivate them in large quantities.
After thinking for a while, Xu Lai advanced the remaining long archer into a marksman.
The damage of the flame archer is indeed more terrifying. Even if the subsequent ignition damage is not counted, after counting the equipment bonus, a flame arrow can cause at least thirty to fifty more damage than the marksman, including the ignition. It will be more exaggerated.
But the problem is that the flame archer only has 300 mana points, and such arrows can only shoot 10 rounds.
Once there are no flame arrows, the damage of the flame archer will be weaker than that of the marksman. Moreover, the marksman can double-shot. With one bow and two arrows and a large quiver, the physical output ability is definitely higher than Flame Archer's.
Xu Lai currently has few high-level warriors, and each one must be utilized to the maximum extent, so it is enough to have one flame shooter for the time being.
After all, a marksman can shoot two arrows with one bow. With Xu Lai's current number of marksmen, if he wants to form arrow feather suppression as soon as possible, the marksman must form a certain scale.
Of course, now that he has a stable source of farmers, he can also promote some farmers and militiamen appropriately. The four farmers who have been suppressed by Xu Lai have long been upgraded to militia shooters.
It's just an upgraded militia shooter, but its combat ability is still relatively weak. I'm afraid he won't be able to go out and upgrade with his main force.
Thinking of this, Xu Lai somewhat regretted it. He had known that he would have kept those low-level cavemen, but now it is not easy to find such an experienced baby who is easy to bully.
He only has one scout in hand, and the only rogue is still a level 2 rogue because he is not often released to participate in battles. He is still far from being upgraded to a scout.
For such a scout, even if he is asked to go out for reconnaissance every day and squeeze every ounce of physical strength to the extreme, it will take several days to scout out the entire village and its surroundings.
But now that this is the case, Xu Lai will not sigh for what has happened. Instead, after resting for a while, he turns his horse and heads towards Su Ya.
(End of this chapter)