Crossbows vs. Longbows

Humakty · #1 February 5th, 2009, 11:30 AM

I must agree that peasants were rarely part of anything political during medieval time. Too busy suffering maybe ?

The main problem with history is that it's all about theories, with little evidence. People never think about leaving fool prof evidence ahead of time. Rather the contrary, in fact. (if this message upsets anyone, I'm sorry, as usual...Blah,blah,blah... no intention to cause harm or...blah, blah,blah... not sue able in anyway.Thanks for reading.)

Agema · #2 February 5th, 2009, 12:13 PM

There's nothing like the web for allowing lots of people who don't know enough about something to spout opinions based on the webpage opinions of other people who don't know enough either.

We could probably boil the longbow versus crossbow debate down to: "Both worked well in their own different ways".

Thilock_Dominus · #3 February 5th, 2009, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Agema

There's nothing like the web for allowing lots of people who don't know enough about something to spout opinions based on the webpage opinions of other people who don't know enough either.

We could probably boil the longbow versus crossbow debate down to: "Both worked well in their own different ways".

Catapult FTW!!1

JimMorrison · #4 February 5th, 2009, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Agema

We could probably boil the longbow versus crossbow debate down to: "Both worked well in their own different ways".

I said that like 60 posts ago.

Then a certain someone claimed that victory does not prove the usefulness of a tool. I firmly believe that if the tool that you have works, then it is good. You may wish you had an impact wrench, but you got the bolts loose, and that's all that matters in the end.