Evaluating archers.

8. Fortress.
Lizards are perhaps only slightly better than Gremlins among archers, but otherwise, they are a mediocre archer unit.

Fortress. Lizards... are the only archer unit in the castle. In my opinion, they are the most "average" warrior.

I disagree, comrades! Lizards are very useful archers. It all depends on the situation. They are best for those who want to take Gnomish Mines/Dungeons/Necropolises in the first two weeks without attracting large numbers of high-level units. Most archers take a beating in treasure rooms and their numbers quickly dwindle. The Tower is particularly bad in this regard - the Gremlins are weak, and the mages are not very healthy or cheap. The latter have the ability "no penalty in melee" - but it is often useless in treasure rooms, because if the mages go first, they won't let anyone get close to them, and if not, then the enemy will still manage to hit them first and kill a few.
Now let's consider this situation, based on the units available in the Swamp. Lizards have a huge amount of health for their level, and they are archers. In addition, Swamp players always increase defense, even if they don't choose Thazara, but someone else. Swamp players always go first, because it is not difficult to build an improved Fly Swarm Nest, and if you don't want to spend a day on it, there is the wonderful hero Korbach, who, with un-upgraded Fly Swarms, overtakes Angels. So, lizards survive the attacks from neutrals better than all other archers when we cannot yet afford a general speed boost! Therefore, a Swamp army with a group of lizards in its composition takes treasure rooms much better and suffers fewer losses than other factions. Another thing is that the Swamp's weakness is its almost complete inability to minimize losses... However, in a player vs. player game, this is not required of us. We need to win at any cost in the shortest possible time. And in the first two weeks, lizards are very good!

If we compare archers in terms of power, then without a doubt, the best are Titans. If we talk about usefulness in a game against the computer, then these are all archers with double attack. But if we talk about a real competition of two minds, then there can be no однозначного answer. For each situation, there is its own archer.