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Archers are awesome!!!
Archers make great dragon slayers. When your NPC's are wing buffeted around the screen, an archer is almost always able to keep right on shooting. I was playing with a full party of 6 when my archer took on Fiirkraag. My archer was responsible for probably about 90% of the damage to Big Red. It wasn't anything specific that my archer did. It's just that archers get such awesome Thac0's that nothing short of magical protections or rolling a critical miss will keep an archer from hitting a target.
Archers are also great wizard/cleric slayers. While they cannot drop a mages magical defenses (short of using a arrow of dispelling, I suppose), the ability to attack at full longbow range is very useful for taking out enemy spell casters.
Archers are most successful when they are utilized properly. Archers are your party's snipers. They can use stealth to sneak up on an enemy and eliminate an enemy spell caster from a great distance. Exposure to melee is a risk that any thief or stalker takes whenever they attempt to backstab. Being able to attack from great range eliminates this risk for the archer.
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