Crossbowman evolution
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Theyd be pretty effective imo.But theyd also require one hell of a training,and each mounted crossbowmen killed would be worth at least 10 of the regular infantry.Thats why mounted archers were in so few numbers.Meandor wrote:Care to explain?And an armoured crossbowman on a horse isn't such a bad ideea.
Nope.In fact,armor was provided just with the appearance of payed military.And those were rare before middle ages.Sure rome had them.And greece and persia too.But as for the rest,armor was mostly self obtained.mr.hackcrag wrote: I wasn't suggesting it was good armor. And wasn't armor provided to troops by the military? I didn't realize each individual had to buy it themselves.
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Only militia got armor because they are mostly too poor to buy themeselves armor.mr.hackcrag wrote: I wasn't suggesting it was good armor. And wasn't armor provided to troops by the military? I didn't realize each individual had to buy it themselves.
Soldiers on other hand, needed to buy themeselves armor in both middle ages and Roman ages (Hastati). What richer you were that better armor you needed.
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Since my alltime favorite ranged unit the Sharpshooter would be under 'archer' I guess (ugh) I had to go with h5 on this, to me the double crossbow was more about power then shooting twice. Isn't realistic, but then again it took a lot of time to put bolts in, and if using realism they would attack very slow (but do a ton of damage).
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