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Immersion-breaking (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/historymemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah, or a sequence of "nock, draw, fire/loose/shoot" commands. Warbows cannot be held that long ffs.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    More likely they didn't shoot in volleys at all. When you can only hold the bow for a second or two even with lifelong training you can't really have volleys.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We can have a rain of arrows then, right?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They wouldn't shoot arrows up into the air, like in movies, because then you lose all the power of the arrow. They would be fired as direct as possible to give the arrow the most speed and thus the highest chance of piercing armour.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    You'd be shooting around 40-50 degrees for a 250yd shot. You want the best ballistic trajectory you can without sacrificing distance. Arrows, like bullets, travel in an arc so while they wouldn't shoot directly up they would shoot at a fairly high angle for anything past 50 yds or so.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Depends how far away the target is. Done some long range shooting before and sometimes you really do shoot up in the air because unless you aim up at 30-45° the arrow isn't going to go far enough.

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