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[RL History] Why is the longbow better than the shortbow?
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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1165733" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>I watched it too - it had good points but their weapons test on the longbow was a travesty. I don't know what the pull weight was on the longbow, but I do recall them saying that the plate it failed to penetrate was 2mm thick - something over _twice_ the historical thickness of plate armour in that period. I've seen enough demos where bodkin arrows fired at close range easily penetrated plate armour (front, back & the mannequin in-between) to be highly sceptical of their claim that the longbow was as ineffective as they claimed. OTOH their demonstration of how the wet Agincourt clay could effectively hold fallen plate-armoured knights immobile seemed credible, and helped explain the origin of the "a fallen knight is as helpless as a turtle on his back" myth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 1165733, member: 463"] I watched it too - it had good points but their weapons test on the longbow was a travesty. I don't know what the pull weight was on the longbow, but I do recall them saying that the plate it failed to penetrate was 2mm thick - something over _twice_ the historical thickness of plate armour in that period. I've seen enough demos where bodkin arrows fired at close range easily penetrated plate armour (front, back & the mannequin in-between) to be highly sceptical of their claim that the longbow was as ineffective as they claimed. OTOH their demonstration of how the wet Agincourt clay could effectively hold fallen plate-armoured knights immobile seemed credible, and helped explain the origin of the "a fallen knight is as helpless as a turtle on his back" myth. [/QUOTE]
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