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Guns were pretty much immediately better. They were easy to use, cheap to reload, and you could shoot through armor.
by oneoff786 4y ago
Guns were pretty much immediately better. They were easy to use, cheap to reload, and you could shoot through armor.
- elromulous 4y agoI'm not sure this is true. Reloading muskets took a long time, no? You had to fumble with pouring the powder, tamping it, putting in the round, possibly also a sabot. "Reloading" a bow takes a second.
- oneoff786 4y agoBows could shoot faster and further but you would tire out. You also had to be a trained archer vs a random nobody with a gun. Becoming an archer was hard, and arrows were a lot more expensive. 1k longbowmen beat 1k musket bros, but that’s not the comparison that really mattered.