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Start posting awesome stuff related to melee and get upvotes and you can be a knight!Would starting a chadzanian crusade along with the rest of the Templars suffice if we convince all the heretics to donate all their money?
Plated charger + gothic plate + big helmet and big bardiche :I am amazed every single time no matter how good I land my blow, your swing will keep going and slice me+my horse up in one go.(click to show/hide)
I just read this... and I had to lol. I'm not a britmy old friend, I don't consider any culture inherantly better than another either but: That's bullshit Smoothrich. Despite what hollywood or w/e has made you believe, the longbow used by the english that gained so much fame during the 100-years war period and continued to be used throughout Tudor times were:The warbow can indeed be used from horseback, but not with the same deadly power and speed as it would have on foot. The main advantage of using a really compact bow as the Tartars and Mongols did was that you could easily put your bow away to switch weapons, not only that but also would you be able to move your bow over the horse's neck whilst shooting, which means you have an extra edge over the use of a warbow from horseback because the turn radius of your bow is greater. Another thing which would in my oppinion is really weird about shooting a warbow from horseback is the following: When I shoot a longbow which is at the top end of the draw weight I can handle, yes I do this because I practice archery for the gigs,(and no not those 180lbs ones lol) all the muscle groups in my upper body are helping me to pull that string back, and to do that properly I have to stand very stable on the ground to shoot the thing, so how could one do that from the back of a horse? of course you could stand up in the stirups but I can't imagine being able to stand as steady in those. Anyhow, I guess we'll never really know, because we don't breed those darn gorillas anymore.
NOT a selfbow: it is a natural laminate, so a compound bow, with sapwood resisting tension on the back and heartwood resisting compression in the belly. Yew was ideal for this, to the point where early conservationists complained about deforestation of yew trees.
NOT a flatbow: crosssection of a longbow/warbow will show it is a D shape.
NOT a straightbow: THIS is the biggest misconception you seem to be under, since many portrayals, especially in movies, show unstrung longbows to look a bit like a stave: Longbows were recurve bows. Very many manuscripts from medieval era show this. Unfortunatly, no medieval bows from england excist, of any shape, but hundreds of ones from the Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, were recovered when the ship was raised, and they are ALL recurve bows.
Longbows, or warbows as they were also called, were primarily used on foot, of course, but when the english marched to france for war they took mounted archers with them. These guys would dismount and form up for pitched battles, because military archery is a question of volume of arrows, not the skirmish warfare of the steppe tribes, but there are times when they had to ride and shoot: There is nothing stopping the use of a longbow on horseback. When the English had to cross Somme, at the ford at Blangetac, the mounted archers went first, firing from horseback at the Picardy militiamen on the other side, to cover the foot archers and knights behind(This is documented, I forget the name of the manuscript but it is a French manuscript describing the events, not some britmy old friend propoganda, you could probably find it if you spoke french and check the National Library's website (w/e the French call their national Library)). This was 2 days before the battle of Crecy.
SO we have a reflex, compound bow, that CAN be used from horseback, can shoot between 15 and 20 arrows per minute, and draw weights between 90 pounds (women and children) to the 160-200 pound range.
SO tell me again how the Mongol and Turkish bows of the same design but lesser draw weight were shooting further with more force?
Because it doesn't make sense on any level, to me.
One thing I never understood is why the fuck do the devs replace items with "new" ones, instead of just adding them.probably because the quality of some of the textures and models was terrible
well its not my class that's allowing me to survive all that shit, its my build and high level.In a way it is your class that let's you have that incredibly high amount of both IF and armor, a 2hander doesn't need to invest in that many different skills, so the skills you do invest in can, in general, be at the top level of what your AGI and STR allow you to have them at. For example, a 2hander doesn't need to invest in something equivalent to PD, PT or riding to be able to play as that class. Of course that is the way that class is designed to be and in that aspect, has an advantage.
Because it's cheaper. It's also the best sword for stunning that has four attacking directions.Do you really think money is still an issue for 70% of the community?
