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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 51 points 1 year ago

If you were commanding a mass of archers "Spaff!" was the correct command.

[-] deet580@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago

The best part was when they said "ITS SPAFFFIN' TIME" and spaffed all over those guys.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

"So I started spaffing"

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

"Ready your bows!"

"Nock!"

"Mark!"

"Draw!"

"Loose!"

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Nock! Nock!"

"Who's there?"

"Mark!"

"Mark who?"

[-] smee@poeng.link 3 points 1 year ago

Mark Oni, inventor of the wireless telegraph!

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

Guy named Mark: "What?" *gets shot*

[-] smee@poeng.link 4 points 1 year ago

Whoever decided to call it "Draw" instead of "Tighten" should be loosed out of a cannon. Into the sun.

[-] antbricks@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

Volley fire wasn't a thing with bows. You ever try holding a 90lb war bow at full draw waiting for someone to yell "Loose"? Never happened.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia seems to disagree:

The Persians army employed volleys of arrows, slingshots, and javelins against the Greeks in Gaugalema[21] and Thermopylae.[22][23] Ancient Greeks and Romans used arrow volleys.[24][20][19] The goddess Artemis was called "‘of the showering arrows".[25][26]

In medieval Europe, after the initial volley, archers would fire single shots at individual enemies.[27] Examples include the Battle of Hastings in 1066,[28] Battle of Crécy in 1346[19] and the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.[29]

I'd imagine it's possible that a volley meant that they started drawing at the same time rather than drawing and waiting.

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I understood that English archers trained to hit certain distances. So as the enemy advanced they would get a volley at x, y, and xy, and so on. Not aim at individuals at that distance.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Yeah they would just spaff all over the enemy, multiple times.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Step enemy, help I'm stuck in the dryer...

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 8 points 1 year ago

Spaffing Brits were the most underhanded of the lot.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

wow I'm glad that changed

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

I don't like this.

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