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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)
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I'm a longbow person because I value quantity over quality.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Wait crossbows were armour piercing?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Crossbows can shoot through riot shields, helmets and soft body armour. Though, so can compound bows.

Edit: BIG crossbows can shoot through walls.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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