Peasant Bowmen (Pox Arrows)

are a missile infantry unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer with Bretonnia (DLC).
== Recruitment ==
* Unlocked with: Farm
==Description==
Although they speak their vows of duty, the peasants of Bretonnia do not understand. It is not their business to understand or to think - only to do. They do not know why they are summoned to fight - these things being beyond their regard - yet when the Greenskin hordes are bearing down upon them, low-born men know they must fight or die. Sometimes they are fortunate enough to be armed with rudimentary weapons; bows, with arrows drenched in oil and lit, or dipped in diseased buboes. Unlike Men-At-Arms, Peasant Bowmen are not equipped from the armouries of the castle and so their longbows will often be their own possessions, handed down from father to son and, accordingly, are of variable quality. Peasants who survive a battle may think themselves lucky until they too are stricken by fatal pox, mayhaps from a cut received whilst loading their unfamiliar and cumbersome weapons!
==Attributes==
==Strategy==
A decent upgrade to the regular bowmen mobs. These units have the benefit of slightly slowing enemy units, allowing the player to make easier use of cavalry charges or skirmishes against the hindered enemy forces.
In comparison to their fire wielding brethren, Pox Bowmen cost less to recruit and maintain, and they are generally a more useful addition to Bretonnian armies, save for when facing forces of Wood Elves or the High Elves of Avelorn.