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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bluenose" data-source="post: 4920972" data-attributes="member: 49017">I believe there's a property qualification before you're required to bring a longbow. And I'd also suggest that archery practice in Worcester's Butts is going to annoy the bus drivers, and with tarmac stopping you driving your stakes in they'll probably charge successfully <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  The thing is, after the first few battles the French rarely fought mounted. The English would deploy either behind natural obstacles (the hedge and ditch at Poitiers) or in a position they'd prepared for defence (with either stakes or pits). Mounted charges just weren't effective. On the other hand if those conditions didn't apply you got a Verneuil or Patay, where a mounted charge successfully scattered the English archers.  Also, does anyone really want to be shooting 70 arrows to kill one armoured target in an RPG? At Crecy, the English had 7,000 longbowmen who shot all their 40 arrows off. The French casualties aren't certain, but a common high-end estimate is 4,000 knights killed.</blockquote>