No, hunts do not > archers, or at least not all the time. In NE vs NE, you should always have both, because if they go hunts, archers, or hunts+ archers, the piercing damage from archers will give you an advantage, damagewise. And an AoW just sitting there is extremely helpful, especially versus humans. It does a LOT of damage. Very helpful to defend with. Of course, due to your "I know everything about warcraft 3 nature", I'll do you the liberty of assuming you defend your base from in front of your ToL as opposed to behind/near it. Please do not take that offensively, as I do not want to start a flame war or give the forum a bad image of myself. You should be a little less stern, like, perhaps, "IMO, at tier 1, Hunts>Archers."