Quote Originally Posted by Tricky Boy View Post
A scout bomb isn't used to wipe out all the archers. It's used to weaken your target so you can send in a wave of archers to clear layers, then send your cavalry in to wipe out the archers. In response to you saying it's only used on 150k archers, that's BS, if your enemy only has that, you just send cavalry, there's no need to scout bomb such a small amount.

I've seen 150k archers on defense with a good rainbow stop 110k cav with minimal losses. This was after 6x 100k scout wave bombs. The waves were chipping off 16k archers at a time but weren't touching the rainbow so the cav still faced a good defense.

@darkbrady,
based on this thread I am wondering what purpose is there in sending cav and cataphract in layers with archers. Due to their speed in combat do they actually provide the archers with any additional time to shoot at the enemy?