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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5817773" data-attributes="member: 463">That's 400 archers firing up in the air so the arrows come down on the 400 French knights 400 yards away. Perfectly doable unless there's a strong headwind.Edit: In archery training they would typically mark out a square of grass, say 50'x50' then the archers had to hit that square of grass from a long way off.  They also did practice point-targetting Robin Hood style, but at closer ranges.Unfortunately that sort of mass archery is often conflated with point shooting by lone archer at a lone moving target, as indeed you appear to have just done. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />I've gone over the statistics, and at 200 yards the best real-world archers using modern compound bows cannot reliably hit a static, unmoving man-sized archery target - hit rate is about 1/3.  400 yards the target is effectively 1/8 the size it was at 200 yards, and with loss of velocity and other effects, hitting a point target is literally impossible.</blockquote>