Heavy riflemen

heavy riflemen are a type of unit in warbanner

this units are especially useful providing fire support, and can really make the difference on a battle if used wisely, what distinguish this units from the rest of this units in this game is that appart from having often a high accuracy, their ranged damage is often HUGE, half of the heavy riflemen regiments have a ranged damage of more than 200, meaning that if one of those happens to hit you, you are dead, and in the case of saxon musketers, who have 100% accuracy and 235 ranged damage, once you see one of those aiming to you, dont even try, you are already dead.

currently at kongregate this units are underrated

Strategy
The heavy riflemen are best used with the cover of other troops like line infantry, they are somewhat rare, so they arent seen really often in battlefield, but not so rare either, especially saxon musketers (the most deadly of all) that often come in numbers of 5 in the diplomatic center every 12 hours when they spawn, costing 6 contracts each, they should be deployed behind the line infantry units to provide fire support, and are best used to attack premium troops, as attacking rebels or regulars with them is a heavy waste of ammo (you are using ~15% of the damage that bullet could have done) a good strategy is to tell the heavy riflemen to advance a few steps upon starting combat with an enemy, so they will have more enemies in range and less bullets will hit the same target, when they run out of ammo (often the battle is over before that) they are far less useful in melee combat, but they still can deal heavy damage in melee (most of them deal arround 78 damage per hit)

Pros

 * 1) high ammo capacity
 * 2) long range
 * 3) decent-good men per regiment
 * 4) high melee
 * 5) decent health
 * 6) high accuracy
 * 7) HUGE ranged damage

Cons
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 * 1) long reload times for most of them
 * 2) vulnerable to cavalry charges that will force them to go melee if not protected correctly
 * 3) high deployment points cost (30 compared to line infantry 25 and light infantry 15)

one thing that is worth noting, is that the heavy riflemen is the only type of troop that you cant train a regular version of, there is only 1 national and 6 premiums, but unless you play with spain, there is no way to produce those