bows are the patrician's ranged weapon

slings are lighter weight, pick up ammo on the fly

But the problem with slings is that you need shitloads of practice to be good with them

that is true

And the range suck

can slings even do anything against bronze armour

just be a true kurd and use a homemade anti material rifle <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554>

They can make some gnarly dents iirc

@Tero bows are cool af

what sort of assailant is coming at you in bronze armor though?

@gary underwood probably lots if you're unironically using a sling

I did a tiny bit of archery a few years ago and it's awesome

although more likely you're just up against peasant farmers/slaves who revolted

archery is fucking hard

naw

It's cool tho

I did it a couple times

just point and shoot

my arm got soar as fuuuuck

the day after

which part

Sore*

Well when you're learning to draw the bow it's pretty hard

The string is a lot tougher than it looks

tricep mostly @Tero

but also my back

imagine doing that all day in a battle
i bet mongols were ripped bro

@MountainMan work dem arm muscles boi

kek

mongol bows were pretty low poundage weren't they?

but that might be because I also trained back and triceps that day <:GWcorbinTopKek:384871333705678868>

so I dunno

english longbowmen would have been ripped though

i wanna say 60 pound

@gary underwood gotta prepare for the rape somehow <:kek:590371888480387073>

OwO

@gary underwood imo they were prolly pretty light, because lightly armoured adversaries, needing to use it on a horse, etc.

english peasants were required to train archery every sunday after church so when they get old enough they can shoot a longbow in battle

srs?

that's pretty badass if true