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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1500058" data-attributes="member: 16362">If you want to talk about reality take historic example not computer game (why would they do a better job than the D&D designer?), there is actually a well known battle (don't have my history book) during the 100 year war where the heavy french cavalry was completly wiped out by the english bowman, in the hand of a trained man a bow is a very deadly weapon. You should be able to disable an average soldier with one or two arrow, like you should be able to kill it with a one or two longsword blow. The big shock for me would be to actually play MTW where looking at historic precedent I would expect the cavalery to be destroyed by my archer. Obviously if your unit had 10 archer and there was 10000 cavalery it's a different story. It took a very long time for firearms to become as deadly as a trained archer. the only problem with the bow compared to the crossbow and the firearms is that you needed less training to be effective with them.</blockquote>