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Are you a longbow or crossbow kinda person? Please justify your answer with historical facts learned in the course this semester. (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I'm a longbow person because I value quantity over quality.

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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Crossbow, I support levelling of the playing field between a normal person and a rich sicko who has been able to spend their entire life training and can afford armor through their exploitation of the peasants. Also, I do not respect Pope Innocent II and his banning of crossbows was a skill issue.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Wait crossbows were armour piercing?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    Yes, it will punch clean through solid plate armor. And as they alluded to above, knights lobbied the pope to ban crossbows from use in combat because it meant a peasant with a week's worth of training could own a knight that had trained their whole life for combat

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