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| Not particularly being a history junkie and being a bit of a lazy git. I'm asking a question here that I probably should be able to answer for myself. Anyway, What are the diffenences between a longbow and a musket in terms of range, damage caused, (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| I'm not an expert, but I think that being proficient in the longbow was difficult, and it was much easier and faster to train soldiers to use muskets. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Howse" <jehowse@yahoo.com> To: (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| (...) I'm the one who started the move towards having LBow stats in BrikWars. When I was discussing them with Mike, I was only comparing with other bows. As I understand it, the big advantages a musket has are portability (a LBow is easily 6' long) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| (...) Historically speaking, a military longbowman had to be specially trained from a very young age - it's not a skill you can just pick up in a few months' training. Musketeers, on the other hand, could be conscripted at a moment's notice from the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun)
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| (...) The chief problem of the longbow was that it took a long time to train a proficient longbowman. It also wasn't as proficient at penetrating plate armor as firearms were, but that's not as significant as the training time. Muskets were deadlier (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.fun)
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