>>64150065
> they needed every advantage they could find
>we are scrapping the barrel therefore our entire army is made out of special forces
listen to yourself you fucking retard. Longbowmen were used because they were cheap and available. They were paid a fraction of what men-at-arms were paid, and the idea of longbowmen being elite unit, and that bows were equivalent to machine guns is just a made up lie spouted so much that anglos started believing themselves, and it costed them dearly. Daily reminder that anglos literally pretend that 16th and 17th century don't exist, gee I wonder why, definitely nothing to do with fact that english armies were getting absolutely mogged, England itself was completely irrelevant, and english were the only European nation to still use a fucking bow in regular units, apart of fucking Tatars, if you count them as Europeans that is. Contemporary English soldiers hated bows, because they were fucking useless.