[Kristoffer O]

Originally posted by IKerensky:

Bow weakness strike me when I compared the composite, long and current bow. then I look at a basic shortsword and saw his damage range to be from 5 + 10 strengh = 15 + 2D6* so they are basically better than any bow.... wich is somewhat surprising ....

I would prefer to be impaled by a thin arrow to being impaled or cut by a short sword. To my knowledge the romans were considered ignoble when they started to use short swords instead of long spears because the casualties were so much higher . Battles were no longer fun so to speak.