>>64151407
I don't care about crossbows, it was not me who claimed that longbows could easily pierce plate armor, and bowmen themselves were super duper delta space marines. While
>longbows were better than early modern firearms
argument didn't yet appear in this thread, they pretty much always do, so it was pre-emptive strike on my part.
>your great great great great
and was your ancestor from some nation of island primitives, that used bows into 17th century, because you take it a little bit too personal.

>A breefe discourse, concerning the force and effect of all manuall weapons of fire and the disability of the long bowe or archery, in respect of others of greater force now in vse. With sundrye probable reasons for the verrifying therof: the which I haue doone of dutye towards my soueraigne and country, and for the better satisfaction of all such as are doubtfull of the same.
>t, Humfrey Barwick (1592)