Dealing with Archers

Archers (3-star) are very easy to deal with if you know how. Often a good cavalry charge will fail to take them down, as all enemies tend to hone in towards backline charged cavalry. as a result, cavlary die quickly. GDR is a very good way to repel AoE, but with lots of enemy archers GDR alone can't do it. So, how do you repel enemy 3-star archers? The trick is to kill them before they can kill you. Merlin is the best hero I can think of for this job, as his widespread damage will often take out enemy archers quickly. using archers yourself may not be a good idea, because you need to take out the enemy tanks before your archers start attacking enemy archers. Sarky can definitely oblieterate any AoE squad, and maybe it isn't a bad idea to try archers in the frontline (since units will try to fight units similar to themselves, thus enemy infantry and pavisers won't go for the archers). Musketeers, however, get a bit more complicated....