cuz the bowmen would get stampeded

This isn't GOT we don't position our bowmen infront of the spearmen

Nah volley doesn't work against cavalry either- like I said when you aim up you increase the flight path of the arrow and therefore reduce its power at the end- literally every archer knows this trope

Longbows usually shoot a few volleys at incoming hordes and then pepper aimed shots at them once their volleys take down enough that they stop being effective

pretty sure in medieval times they positioned bowmen on the flanks

and separately from spearmen

This chat smells like BO and Inhalers

fuckin nerds

and youd only get a good shot at cavalry if they were charging directly at you anyway

I didn't mean aiming up I just meant holding until they're in range and then all opening fire and continuing to fire

Not to mention an actual volley fire doesn't "blot out the sun" <:pot_of_kek:544849795433496586>

either way afaik the proper tercio

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Not that it would be bad to break their formation by firing earlier

which is the incorporated melee and ranged unit

wasnt a thing until the renaissance era

how far away the enemy is will determine how high u shoot

You only use volley fire for massive amounts of people

its science bro

Just use a sword and a horse

Then you're guaranteed to hit something

Yea but you wouldn't take an unaimed shot- that doctrine is still here today for firearms.

wastage of arrows

Its not fucking easy to take a long range shot with a bow

There isn't an optic imao

Yeah, you'd shoot at a single mass of people

modern firearms dont need a volley to lay down weight of shot

No ACOG

Nah dude it takes skill, like I said its usually less than 100 meters

you literally just take a lmg and go to town

nothing stops an lmg

you cant shoot an arrow that far accurately lol

Then once the group of people thins out you actually start aiming at individuals

Would I hunt a deer at 100 meters? Ideally not because its 30/70, 50 meters? Yea fuck it, 20 meters? cant miss

@Storin you understand my logic though, right?

Like just being able to see it at that range in grass is improbable, landing a shot is still eh

Just shoot the target and not miss

It’s not that hard

Dude what modern people calls logic is clearly wrong- because if it did work then there would be historical accounts in the thousands backing it up. It didn't happen because it didn't work. <:shrug:349342983763656705>

until you just bring out the horse archers

If you miss you need to git gud