The upgrade has arrived

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• wieson@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the floor above them, looking through a giant glass window onto the landscape, no discussion audible: the compound bow.

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• thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like the other way around would work better

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Interestingly enough, the English longbow was a fairly late adoption!

    Previous self-bows did not have the range or penetrative power of the English longbow, and even in England itself, the crossbow was more common until the mid-14th century AD. The longbow, thus, was introduced as an ‘upgrade’ of sorts to the well-established crossbow!

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If you had no skill or strength, a crossbow was better, but people with good skill and strength can fire lots and lots of arrows in the same time as two crossbow arrows and more accurately.

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    • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Which is why crossbows were better. An hour with a thousand farmers and you’ve got an army.

      Takes years of practice and strength training to handle an English longbow.

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