Conquest - Bow and Arrow [Part 1/3]

Conquest TV series - Bow and Arrow

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[HomeMadeGunNut]

Thanks for the upload :)

[regil94]

Man thaks for te upload i have been searching for this for a long time

[battletoads22]

I found with perfect form, the string won't hit the arm. But, to do that every single time requires practice. That, or I just don't notice when I hit my bracer because the hit is so deadened.

[OP7Specter]

lucky them they can use bow and arrows!!!!

[klg200]

they`re using the bows and arrows completly wrong...

[WesleySpeaks23]

 '' String hits inside of the arm'' A good archer can bend his arm slightly while he draws back on his bow so this won't happen, I do it all the time.

[clintdelicious]

@xitbwx There are loads of methods, the shows doesn't have time to show much of anything really

[xitbwx]

didnt they steem the bows to bend them? and then added weights to control the power behind it or something like that? :/

[MrLantean]

@TheBoyFromNorfolk Any bow regardless requires years of training. On Continental Europe, crossbowmen were the main archers while in England, longbowmen were prefered. If they had protective cases for their composite prods, could they have done the same for composite bows? I know it takes months for the glue of the composite bows to dry up. Both infantry and horse archers in Asia, Middle East and the Lower Balkans used the composite bows. They were being manufactured during peace times.

[TheBoyFromNorfolk]

@MrLantean

The simpler longbow is a lot cheaper to manufacture, even if you have to import the bow wood, as England did. As I say above, it takes a lot of training, and only a special circumstance of society and culture allowed the Longbow and Archer to equal in strength the crossbow.

Composite Crossbows were used, but there are accounts of them failing due to weather, and protective cases to keep them dry & working.

Horse Archers were imported into europe as mercenaries, so it's not the geo.

[MrLantean]

@TheBoyFromNorfolk If that so, won't the composite prods of crossbows suffer the same fate? Archers in the Roman armies used the composite bows as their primarily weapon. The remains of such bows were even found in the ruins of Roman forts in Britain. I think the geograhy of Western Europe made horse archery unnecessary. To infantry archers, the simpler longbow is adequate enough to inflict damages on the enemies.

[TheBoyFromNorfolk]

@MrLantean

Composite technology is easily damaged in the wet climate of western europe (also a hypothesis for failed steppe invasions). Horse archers require a lot of training, if you don't live the life style that trains you in it from birth (like the steppe peoples do), it's almost impossible to equal those who do.

However, there is evidence that English Warbows began to recurve at the tips. English Archers, like Horse Steppe people, need a life time of training.