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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4336879" data-attributes="member: 35909">Perhaps, though I'm not sure.  I know many of the cavalry fighting and basic survival techniques used by the Mongols were first pioneered by the Huns, and the History Channel recently had an episode on ancient ballistics.  In one part, they went to Hungary where some world renowned archer was practicing the Hun's techniques for archery fire, and they entioned stories of the Hun cav archers firing at the Romans as they "retreated."  So this tactic was likely already around.Side note: Everyone who can should find that episode if possible, it was awesome.  The aforementioned Hungarian archer even gave a justification for the 6 second combat round!  He shot at point blank range (as in the feat range) a dozen targets tossed in front of him, hitting every single one in just over 17 seconds (ie, 4 attacks per round).  Sure, it was short range, but he also didn't miss, even on his 4th iterative. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />He then demonstrated the full usage of the Hun techniques, speeding around on horseback at 22 mph and hitting all 6 moving targets at point blank range in about 10 seconds, rounding the target area and firing in different arcs.</blockquote>