Do Archer's Add Extra Arrows to a Buildings Defense?

[Thales]

Theoretically, garrisoned archers should be adding extra arrows to a buildings defense. Do they really?

I get the impression that garrisoned regular infantry also does that, so there may be no benefit to having archers in a building?

Of particular concern: community centers, military colony, stone towers, and castles.

[Guest]

Any garrisoned citizen soldier or champion adds to the arrow count of those buildings. 

Garrisoned women don't add any. Try to send them into houses, instead. 

[Thales]

1 hour ago, Deicide4u said:

Any garrisoned citizen soldier or champion adds to the arrow count of those buildings. 

So there is really no extra benefit to garrisoning an archer in a building when compared to other infantry.

Where should archers be placed for extra arrow benefit?

Edited June 19, 2025 by Thales

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, Thales said:

So there is really no extra benefit to garrisoning an archer in a building when compared to other infantry.

No, there is no extra benefit.

51 minutes ago, Thales said:

Where should archers be placed for extra arrow benefit?

There is no difference. All garrisoned soldiers give the same amount of arrows. Place archers either behind the fortification so they can pelt the enemy from afar, or inside the Civic Center/tower/Fortress. Preferably the later, as archers are very easy to kill.

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22 hours ago, Deicide4u said:

Garrisoned women don't add any.

To be pedantic: Maurian champion archer (woman) add arrows. Most healers (men) don't add arrows. Also the hero Hippocrates does not add arrows. "Per Unit" might be changed to "Per Solidier" to clarify this.

[Boudica]

On 20/06/2025 at 2:39 PM, ffm2 said:

To be pedantic: Maurian champion archer (woman) add arrows. Most healers (men) don't add arrows. Also the hero Hippocrates does not add arrows. "Per Unit" might be changed to "Per Solidier" to clarify this.

How about me? Do I "add arrows"?

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Your horse doesn't fit in a tower. In the cc or fort it's ok. Except when the game setting is regicide and hero garrison is off, then also no additional arrows. Maybe just change the tooltip to "it's complicated".

[Player of 0AD]

On 22/06/2025 at 8:56 PM, Boudica said:

How about me? Do I "add arrows"?

Yes my friend, you do.

Btw. the only buildings where archers add more arrows than other soldiers are walls.

[happygamer]

Yep, garrisoned archers do add arrows to a building’s defense—same as infantry. There's no special bonus for using archers though, so any unit will boost the fire rate. Best to use low-risk or injured units for that.

[LienRag]

On 26/06/2025 at 8:30 PM, happygamer said:

Yep, garrisoned archers do add arrows to a building’s defense—same as infantry. There's no special bonus for using archers though, so any unit will boost the fire rate.

As written above, they do when you garrison them on walls.

But alas they die quite quickly there - that probably should be buffed in a way or another. Maybe with an option to have them automatically garrison in the wall towers once they lost half their hit points ?

Archers on walls are a historical thing, and in-game they're nearly unusable without too much micromanagement...