To summarize the excellent William Neade:
The bow and arrow is the greatest weapon in the world, and archers are the greatest warriors in the word. Abraham was an archer; Issac and Esau were archers; King David loved archers; the Assyrians and Persians were great archers; the Romans loved archers; the Parthians and the Turks triumphed in battle through archery. In short, archers are awesome, and the best archers in the world are the British. The battle of Crecy, the battle of Poitiers, and the battle of Agincourt proved that.
But ever since someone invented that devilish bullshit called gunpowder, archery has fallen out of fashion. This doesn't make sense. Archers can fire much faster than musketeers, are more terrifying than musketeers, are more accurate than musketeers, and are more resistant to rain. Aside from the military advantages, training bowmen also helped boost the local economy though local crafts, and the act of collective training unites communities. So we should bring the long-bowman back to Britain in the year of our lord 1627.
I have just the invention to help restore the honor of the longbow. I've invented a device that combines a longbow with a pike. This way, the archer can be protected from Calvary, just like how entrenched stakes protected the archers at Agincourt. In addition, traditional pikemen are helpless against musketeers. But my new pike-archers can out-shoot enemy musketeers. I've tried it myself at the local town green, and it works great. It isn't even that much heavier than an standard pike, and strong soldiers should have no trouble with it. In short, pike-archers are the future of warfare, and England needs to embrace them as soon as possible.
(Summarized from The Double Armed Man by William Neade)
The bow and arrow is the greatest weapon in the world, and archers are the greatest warriors in the word. Abraham was an archer; Issac and Esau were archers; King David loved archers; the Assyrians and Persians were great archers; the Romans loved archers; the Parthians and the Turks triumphed in battle through archery. In short, archers are awesome, and the best archers in the world are the British. The battle of Crecy, the battle of Poitiers, and the battle of Agincourt proved that.
But ever since someone invented that devilish bullshit called gunpowder, archery has fallen out of fashion. This doesn't make sense. Archers can fire much faster than musketeers, are more terrifying than musketeers, are more accurate than musketeers, and are more resistant to rain. Aside from the military advantages, training bowmen also helped boost the local economy though local crafts, and the act of collective training unites communities. So we should bring the long-bowman back to Britain in the year of our lord 1627.
I have just the invention to help restore the honor of the longbow. I've invented a device that combines a longbow with a pike. This way, the archer can be protected from Calvary, just like how entrenched stakes protected the archers at Agincourt. In addition, traditional pikemen are helpless against musketeers. But my new pike-archers can out-shoot enemy musketeers. I've tried it myself at the local town green, and it works great. It isn't even that much heavier than an standard pike, and strong soldiers should have no trouble with it. In short, pike-archers are the future of warfare, and England needs to embrace them as soon as possible.
(Summarized from The Double Armed Man by William Neade)
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