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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kolvar" data-source="post: 1874780" data-attributes="member: 1423">Hmh, about the common bow: The Longbow, the bow, that is as tall as a man, was widely used only in England and Wales and there only because it was a sports-item that the nobility required the peasents to train with (to get access to trained archers - what a great scheme, actually. giving them the freedom to use a weapon, to exploit that freedom for their wars). Others used short-bows or X-bows. Considering the "many" battles won with the bows, it where mainly the English who killed with the bow (Agincourt, i.e. had the english longbowmen on one side and X-bow man on the other).There is another saying about training bowmen: if you take 10 longbow-men with you on a campaign, you will have 2 afterwards, who know how to use a bow.Another thing about the X-bow: As far as I know, it was one of the first weapons to be banned from use during wars, becaue any peasant could grab one and kill a noble-man with it.The funny thing is, that I was thinking about making the longbow an exotic weapon just yesterday, after reading the Palladium RPG, where the longbow is restricted to two classes only.</blockquote>