• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    You wouldn’t do that because why would you need it to be all at the same time? This is musket logic being applied to bows. Pulling a warbow isn’t something anyone can do. People who did that trained all their lives for it. They literally had a different bone structure and musculature because of it. You don’t get people to wait with a shitload of pounds of force trying to wriggle out and launch an extremely heavy arrow. Hollywood bows are shitty props with loose strings that resemble a child’s toy more than an actual bow.

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        7 days ago

        There are so many people in the fediverse who are just typing words because they like to see their name on a screen.

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        6 days ago

        Why would you think there’d be a command at all, other than “when they are in range, kill them”? Why would you wait till people are closer when you start shooting them when you can shoot them when they are further away just fine. It’s not like someone would say “oh fuck these dudes in the front got taken out by archers, time to take out my shield”. They’d just walk with their shield out already. They’d use siege engines to hide from the arrows. They’d have barricades to hide behind. You wouldn’t simply go for the Futurama killbot limit, why would you give your opponent more time to walk towards you

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          6 days ago

          They’re not aiming at individual targets. They’re shooting volleys. That would require coordination.

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          6 days ago

          If you can’t come up with any answers to those questions on your own then I don’t think it’s worth my time responding to this.