SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - View Single Post - Forget gun control, this guy has bow control

Stealhead · 01-26-15, 12:34 AM

You can easily how gunpowder and firearms caused a major change in warfare. The skill required to be an effective combatant with a firearm is fairly easy to learn.In a matter of weeks of focused training a person can become an effective combatant with a rifle.

Compare this to the skill and time required to become skilled in arcerchy or swordsmanship it takes much longer and is far more expensive. The firearm allowed a conscript non professional army to be a feasibility which of course allowed nations field sizable forces in times of need very rapidly.

As to the issue of sword sheathage that's what your page is for in addition to making horse hoof sound effects with sections of coconut. In all seriousness I assume that the larger two handed swords likely where not sheathed meaning they where brought out of storage and carried into combat. Then a page must have taken the sword back upon retirement from battle or taken it and given his lord a lighter weapon when he signaled the need. I imagine one would need to retire from a battle after a short time if using a two handed weapon he'd be the shock troop bust some heads then retire and re-engage as required.

I wonder how many high velocity swallows you recon this Dane could shot?

01-26-15, 12:34 AM	#2
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	You can easily how gunpowder and firearms caused a major change in warfare. The skill required to be an effective combatant with a firearm is fairly easy to learn.In a matter of weeks of focused training a person can become an effective combatant with a rifle. Compare this to the skill and time required to become skilled in arcerchy or swordsmanship it takes much longer and is far more expensive. The firearm allowed a conscript non professional army to be a feasibility which of course allowed nations field sizable forces in times of need very rapidly. As to the issue of sword sheathage that's what your page is for in addition to making horse hoof sound effects with sections of coconut. In all seriousness I assume that the larger two handed swords likely where not sheathed meaning they where brought out of storage and carried into combat. Then a page must have taken the sword back upon retirement from battle or taken it and given his lord a lighter weapon when he signaled the need. I imagine one would need to retire from a battle after a short time if using a two handed weapon he'd be the shock troop bust some heads then retire and re-engage as required. I wonder how many high velocity swallows you recon this Dane could shot? Last edited by Stealhead; 01-26-15 at 12:53 AM.