[Rasorow]

Something to think about is the bow (not necessarily the longbow though) did go up against the early muskets. It was the colonization of North America. A native american warrior armed with a bow fired at least twice as often as a soldier with a musket.


Also while I dont know about much about archery... I do know that the upper body strength required with the longbow was fairly impressive - even for a warrior. The entire army may not have been strong enough to use the longbow. Additionally didn't the bow have to be matched to the warrior? It had to be a certain measure depending on the height and strength of the archer?

IMO there was alot more craftmanship in the average "archaic" darkage/middle age weapons then in the average weapon of the modern era.