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Saber Cherry said:
I think it would be very hard to fire a crossbow accurately with more than a minor (<5 degrees) arc... and any arc-firing requires more training than direct firing, which would defeat the point of cheaply raising masses of untrained crossbowmen. Assuming, of course, that crossbows were used by cheap masses of poorly trained soldiers, which could be another false premise on my part.
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i imagine if you had to train levies to fire crossbows ballistically, you'd do it the way the napoleonics did with muskets: drill a few angles for likely ranges (maximum, half-max, short) and figure that will do well enuf.