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[-] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

"Ready your bows!"

"Nock!"

"Mark!"

"Draw!"

"Loose!"

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Nock! Nock!"

"Who's there?"

"Mark!"

"Mark who?"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Mark Oni, inventor of the wireless telegraph!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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.

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