Athenian Marksman Locations - Fear of Arrows Quest - Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Athenian marksman is a type of enemy in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. They’re basically souped-up archers. Nothing remarkable about them, really, except the fact they show up as targets in one of the weekly contracts. The message board quest called Fear of Arrows tasks you with killing a certain amount of these unit types, and it proved to be far more difficult than it should’ve been. This guide is going to show you AC Odyssey Athenian Marksman locations, to help you complete said quest.
Where to find Athenian Marksman in AC Odyssey?
First off, there’s no way to predict where they’ll appear with certainty. However, there are ways to increase your chances of meeting one (or thirty). As we’ve mentioned, they’re archers. They wear blue hoods, which should make them easy to spot when you’re in the vicinity. Theoretically, you’ll find them at any place that has Athenian soldiers – war ships, forts, camps and such. Of course, some of those are better suited for your search than others.
Ships, for instance, are a terrible idea. You need Ikaros to tell you which unit you’re gunning for, and you can’t do that with ships (at least not reliably). We’ve had the most luck with Athenian forts. The marksmen are usually captains, so you can check the camp quickly – save the game, approach silently, use Ikaros to pinpoint the captain(s), and look in the upper right corner to check whether they’re the right type. If not, reload the game or go to a different camp.
It’s going to take a long time, but the rewards are commensurate. Also, don’t bother with clearing out the whole camp – that’s not what you’re there for, and it’s only going to make the whole ordeal last longer. Get inside, kill the marksman and be on your merry way.
Or just keep making them call for reinforcements 🙂 most of them are marksmen.
It looks to me like the surest way is to go to Athenian conquest battle camps. Go to forts containing national treasures, loot them, burn all supplies, and kill everyone there. If that doesn’t trigger a battle, find the leader and kill hiim.
Once a battle has been triggered, go to the Athenian camp and kill ONLY the hooded archer. Then go to the camps of other available conquest battles and kill the hooded archers there.
Keep going till you run out of conquest battle camps. Then, if need be, loot more forts and kill more leaders. But I just went back to the ones still there, to find that the archers had respawned.
It looks to me like the surest way is to go to Athenian conquest battle camps. Go to forts containing national treasures, loot them, burn all supplies, and kill everyone there. If that doesn’t trigger a battle, find the leader and kill hiim.
Once a battle has been triggered, go to the Athenian camp and kill ONLY the hooded archer. Then go to the camps of other available conquest battles and kill the hooded archers there.
Keep going till you run out of conquest battle camps. Then, if need be, loot more forts and kill more leaders.
This is a less complete post than the later one. Sorry, but something went wrong and the next day, the first was only seen as something ready to post. So I updated, posted, and only then did the first one appear. Now I find myself unable to delete it.
The other part of this quest is finding Athenian Archers all over Greece. These are easily found by running around the perimeter wall of Athens while getting your assassin on.
Inside the Athens walls there are a number of “buildings” (Mint, Marble Workshop, etc.) that often have a marksman.
If you fight Titus, Rock of Athens in the arena, there is a guaranteed Marksman in Wave 4. Boring, but excellent XP.
There are a couple side contracts for the marksman I found a quicker way to get them after wasting hours in camps and forts. Lower that control of a city to open up conquest but do not go to battle, instead go to the Athenian battle camp. You can freely walk in and there are always one or two marksman hanging around.
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