Quote from: fsn on 21 April 2014, 06:10:42 PM

Point blank range great, but what's her accuracy like at 200 yards?

Lessons from Legolas?

She needs to count better  keeps reaching back when quiver is empty

Bloody hell we're all picky today! Wouldn't want to get on her bad side unless I had a n+a few spare mates with me where n is the number I arrows she's got to hand

most archers if you run at them with an axe or similar lose there accuracy for some reason

Working on the musketry principle, I'm not sure it would matter; If you've got 100 archers firing at a Napoleonic battalion at that speed I know who I'd back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1KC1Os-_NE

Quote from: Last Hussar on 21 April 2014, 10:47:16 PM
Working on the musketry principle, I'm not sure it would matter; If you've got 100 archers firing at a Napoleonic battalion at that speed I know who I'd back!

That's the old study about how if the Anglo army had longbows at Waterloo the French would have been devastated and broken in the first half hour etc.

Of course, if they'd had longbows the French would probably have had proper Gendarmes and mercenary crossbowmen, and under a commander who didn't let them screw up... unless his piles/wallpaper poisoning were playing him up...

What weight of bow is she drawing?

That's slow by Sassanid standards

The thing is that all of these are under controlled conditions and as Sandanista says, distraction is a key factor. Also if they can fire 10 arrows in as many seconds that means that withing two minutes they are going be no good to anybody, (allowing for 60 arrows carried). We will never really have a clue on how effective all these super-techniques were unless we can invent a time machine and/or see them in a real live action combat situation. Any volunteers? Till then I reckon we should stay with best guess.

The bow is maybe around 50 lb draw weight, I recognose the design. I used to manage around 20 arrows a minute, not up to her speed, but with a much bigger (but lighter draw weight) bow. The trick isn't the shooting, that's easy - it's the nocking the arrow that's impressive.

Anyway, I shall not be picking a fight with her.

Whilst pressure degrades performance, if you're using that in anger I suspect you'd cope with it. If soldiers didn't every army would immediately fall apart on first contact. Or, you may have an axe and be charging, but running through an arrow storm with your comrades screaming and bleeding around you is a bit different to chopping a defenceless tree down

And the baggage train has wagons/pack horses with pannier after pannier of spare arrows, and arrow boys to run back and forth with them, and scour the field for usable spares in between pushes.

Of course, that's not to say archery of any stripe always wins. It's usually down to the armed rugby scrum in the mud and the blood that actually finishes things, whether mounted or afoot...

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Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 April 2014, 10:32:40 AM
Anyway, I shall not be picking a fight with her.

Very wise, neither shall I