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

That's dank af

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40960933?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Mandatory archery

That's how they got to be so based