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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkMaster" data-source="post: 1500956" data-attributes="member: 16362">Got my books.Then how come after those three battles Crecy 1346, Poitier 1356 and Azincourt 1415 All three were decided by the strenght of the English bowmans, The french finally realised that they had to have strong archery unit. The archer became so powerfull that the king of France disbanded them, nobility being too scared of being overthrown by soldier coming from inferior class.In Crecy 1346 6000 archer decided the victory in 90 minutes, bow were extremely efficient and powerfull, there are story of heavy cavalery nailed to their horses with an arrow that went through their legs and the horse. modern test made with ancient bow demonstrated that at short range the arrow can go through more than 3 inches of oak and that at 200 meter it still go through an inch of the same wood. at 200 meter none of the chain mail were resisting to that and plate armor were pierced at 100 metersNow the elite archer could hit a human target 12 time in a minute at 200 yards. Edward III Archery corps (6000 man) could throw 144 000 arrow in four minutes. Imagine the damage to the cavalery.For sure if the Cavalry get to the archer their all dead, and that is why the infantery was there to cover them.</blockquote>