Setting up mandatory bow practice increases the skill and marksmanship of archers and crossbowmen. Units who complete their training receive +1 attack and +1 range. The school of bow practice is open to archers, crossbowmen, cavalry archers, and unique and mercenary archers, but not handgunners or skirmishers (who benefit from Guerilla Warfare).
Technology Statistics[]
Available to: All
Researched at: Princely Court, Guild Hall, Assembly Hall
Requires: -
Century: 15th
Cost: 600 Wood, 500 Florins
Effect: Archers, Crossbowmen, Mounted Crossbowmen and Cavalry Archers +1 attack, +1 range; disables all other techs apart from Court Clergy or Popular Assembly
Strategy/Recommended Civs[]
This section lists civs that can make the best of Bow Practice (sometimes recommended with a certain policy decision). Note that this may not be the best weapons training tech for that civ, but the civ can still make very good use of it.
- Austria (Hausmacht)
- Bavaria
- Brittany
- Bohemia (Taborite Sect)
- England (Combined Arms)
- Genoa
- Guelders
- Helvetia (Reichsstadt)
- Poland (Ostsiedlung)
- Wales (Independence)
