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So you want to compare sports archery vs combat archery and expect the results to be anything less than obvious? Your comment does make me consider, though, wh
by tormeh 12y ago
So you want to compare sports archery vs combat archery and expect the results to be anything less than obvious?
Your comment does make me consider, though, whether longbowmen use a technique more similar to the modern sports technique than to Andersen's here. Kind of like how sniping is more similar to target practice than urban combat.
- mcguire 12y agoMaybe, maybe not. :-) Accuracy vs. volume of fire is not an easy question to settle, given that they can't be compared directly, but require very different tactics and training. Check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHGUExSGH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOHGUExSGH8 (and for background, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomJdLZGyCM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XomJdLZGyCM ). Most of the depictions of longbowmen in battle that I've seen make me suspect that they're going down the volume-of-fire route.