Yes, you should deffinitly take some archers there are several reasons:
1. The archers can still fight normally once the lines have clashed. At this points level you will only have to kill one or two enemies in order for the bows to pay their points. Let's say you have ten archers and they shoot (and kill) a total of 14 points for the entire game, the bows have payed their cost mathematicly.
2. There isn't always room for everyone to fight at the same time, so you can just as well have a few shooting instead of doing nothing.
3. If you have some archers you can frighten your enemy from doing certain things, such as leaving a banner bearer alone or let a hero ride behind you without additional cover.
4. Archers are great arrow magnets.
5. Volley fire. Let's say you have 12 archers, that should give about 2 hits a turn with volley fire. Since your opponent get to direct half your hits, he will probably choose a normal warrior, over 3 turns this roughly gives you a 50% chance of killing. Lets say that the same goes for the other half, of course you don't have a 100% chance of killing something, but you are likely to get one kill. This doesn't seem like much, but it probably pays for half your bows. More importantly, volley fire actually gives you an advantage against other strength 2 bows since the accuracy is ignored and you probably have more archers than they do.
So basicly, don't consider your bow armed goblins as archers, but rather as goblins who can shoot.
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