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Tim Grimmett
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:13 pm    Post subject: Longbow Articles

I came across these and thought some Warrior readers might enjoy:

http://www.stortford-archers.org.uk/medieval.htm

http://wapenshaw.wordpress.com/

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:59 am    Post subject:

Hello Tim,

Quite an interesting article, thanks for posting it. For an archery club to claim that archers won the battle single-handedly might, in some parts be viewed as biased.

I admit, I started to lose it with the physics, and I didn't understand how a 180lb drawweight would have had any advantage if they fired in the manner described. it's an arrow, not an AP Bomb.

Having attempted some maths, I came up with the following. 5000 men at 50,000 arrows per minute is a r.o.f of 10 r.p.m (surely not, from such a powerful weapon for 8 minutes solid.)

[Perhaps a List Rule giving all LB at least double shooting FP might be in order Wink ]

This caused somewhere in the region of 5000 to 10000 casualties.

Using Warrior, and 96 LB figures, you would, I calculate, from a base weapon factor of 2 v SHK and with constant zero on the shooting dice need either 50 bounds of fire or a total factor of +17 for 1 bound to achieve even the lowest casualty estimate Shocked

Methinks something is seriously out of whack here (probably my maths), but I certainly don't think it is the rules.

Posted purely because I have nothing better to do at 3.00 a.m.

Steve (who hates maths, physics and armies who shoot arrows at him)
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