I'd hesitate strongly before ditching bowmen. There is one spell in the game that changes them from useful to awesome - dragon arrows. Each dragon arrow ignores range penalties and armour. The latter is an incredibly useful bonus - trying to kill something with 50 defense? Dragon arrow just punches straight through it. Near the end of the game I found I could take out 5 black dragons with a single stack of archers using dragon arrows.
Archmages on the other hand are a troop I would replace. They really don't do enough damage for their level. They have their special abilities, but all things considered you generally want to use your troops to attack rather than make them perform some kind of trick.
Last edited by Holywhippet; 01-08-2009 at 10:09 PM.
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