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Manor Lords to add crossbowmen in next update

Coming with sweet loading animations

Marco Wutz

Slavic Magic / Hooded Horse

Prepare to expand your armies in Manor Lords with the city-builder’s next update, for developer Slavic Magic has confirmed that “new unit types” are coming to the game soon – crossbowmen being the first addition to be revealed.

Archers are one of the most accessible units for your army in Manor Lords at the moment, as bows can be produced very easily quite early in the game. It’s going to be interesting to see the difference between bows and crossbows in regard to their production chains as well as their battlefield use. Though bows are relatively simple to make, archers require a lot of practice to make good use of their weapon, whereas one can quite quickly learn how to handle a crossbow effectively – that fact made them ideal for medieval armies despite their higher production cost and reload times compared to bows.

Slavic Magic already showed off the lovingly detailed reload animation for crossbowmen, which you can find below:

As you can see, the game will feature a type of light crossbow that can be loaded without the use of winches or pulleys. The soldier simply puts his foot into the stirrup-like structure at the front of the weapon to hold it down, pulling the strings back with his arms.

Cavalry is another major military addition Manor Lords are waiting for, but that will likely have to wait for a while longer.

Already confirmed for the same patch as crossbowmen are the addition of fishing ponds and the switch to Unreal Engine 5.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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