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

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when civVI doesnt have longbowmen as english special units anymore <:pepehands:378719408367075333>

i tried looking into the mongol bows but i got conflicting results, most of what i saw was over 100 lb, and some as high as 180 lb. but i didnt do enough research to confirm

@gary underwood It was actually more like 70lbs

Those numbers came from people ignoring that the materials degraded over centuries of not being used

i saw one thing that said they carried two bows, and one was stronger

180lb would make them nearly twice as strong as english archers

seems unlikely

chinks not exactly big guys