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Re: What do peasants carry around in your town?
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 5 May 2000 15:39:19 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, John D. Forinash writes:
> In article <Fu2A3r.4Hn@lugnet.com>, Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Why aren't bows and arrows OK? I'd think they're easier to handle than a
> > crossbow,
Well, they're easier to make than a crossbow, certainly - and cheaper.
Crossbows are probably easier to hit things with, but they're big and
heavy and not something you'd want to carry around all day.
> > not to mention that a lot of peasants knew how to handle them
> > (doesn't mean they're any good at it ;-)
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> Only gripe I've got with a bow and arrow is that there's always an arrow
> nocked and drawn. Peasants may have known how to use a bow and arrow,
> but they generally didn't wander through town with an arrow ready to
> let fly. :)
True. On the other hand, I regard that as less of a problem than the
habit of my knights to always be waving their swords around...have these
people never heard of scabbards? Are they a well-kept Ninja secret in
LEGOland?
I'd love to see something you could put between the legs & body with a
clip or slot or something, so you could have a sheathed sword. One to go
over the neck so you can have a sword slung on your back would be cool,
too.
J
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| (...) Actually, I believe the accuracy of longbows is much greater than that of crossbows. Crossbows are kind of crude and brute force - no finesse. However, because they have much more force (the bolts are heavy), they are used to penetrate armour. (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Only gripe I've got with a bow and arrow is that there's always an arrow nocked and drawn. Peasants may have known how to use a bow and arrow, but they generally didn't wander through town with an arrow ready to let fly. :) I'd like to see (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-00, to lugnet.castle)
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