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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Utrecht" data-source="post: 1164210" data-attributes="member: 1411">Above and beyond the inherintly increased drawing power of the longbow.  The English longbow had the advantage that its users trained from a very early age on the use of it.  So much so that a skilled longbow user could have between 4-5 arrows in the air at any one time - effectively doubling/tripleing the combat power of the bowman.Regarding the Mongols - well they were successful for different reasons - the primary reason was tactics and dicipline - and using weapons that were effective for those tactics.  The Mongol bows were no where near the penetrating power of the longbow - but they were much more mobile - which fit niceling into their operation doctrine.</blockquote>