[Mid] Archery

Ector said:

<<<<<<<
It seems that
where as the arrows might not have killed that many people, they most
likely caused a scattering effect that would have caused diorintaion
among the troops, thus making it easier to kill them. Another thing that
must
not be over looked is the fact that a wounded person is for the most part
not as hard to deal with as a able boddied person is. The arrows may not
have killed them but it seems that they most likely helped to get it
done,via wounds and confusion caused by them falling from the air.
<<<<<<

I think that this is DeVries's argument in a nutshell. I think he is
arguing against the common notion that the average shot with a longbow
was almost infallibly deadly. DeVries thinks that archery was very
effective in the early 14th c., just not in the way it has usually been
thought to be effective.

Finnvarr

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