An expert bowman could outmatch a group of 12 crossbowmen.
But if you had a group of 50+ men to arm with bows or crossbows (hundereds and thousands weren’t uncommon historically), a crossbow was more effective because there’s no way in hell you’d get, say, 10.000 expert bowmen. If you were to arm such a legion with bows, you’d most likely suffer more damage from friendly fire than from enemy fire.
Fair enough, slow to reload and all that. My personal favorite is the tried and true 1911 but thermite is also fucking awesome and a quick death should not be the end of a Nazis life
Hmm, sounds like a solvable problem, why not crossbows?
Crossbows are clunky and slow operate.
Their plus is that untrained people can use them.
An expert bowman could outmatch a group of 12 crossbowmen.
But if you had a group of 50+ men to arm with bows or crossbows (hundereds and thousands weren’t uncommon historically), a crossbow was more effective because there’s no way in hell you’d get, say, 10.000 expert bowmen. If you were to arm such a legion with bows, you’d most likely suffer more damage from friendly fire than from enemy fire.
I have to dig that back up. I think it ended up being that the size of a crossbow capable of bear hunting vs a compound bow was significant.
Fair enough, slow to reload and all that. My personal favorite is the tried and true 1911 but thermite is also fucking awesome and a quick death should not be the end of a Nazis life