Post completely useless weapons

Post completely useless weapons

>completely useless
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Useless?
This thread should apparently be a post weapons that shaped history thread.

T. Butthurt English longbow man

>this thread again

Someone mind filling me in on why a crossbow is useless? Or even why a "useless" weapon would even exist?

Well there are plenty of ceremonial weapons that are paraded around for symbolic value, but the crossbow is probably the least sexy and most grimly functional weapon in premodern history.

And by that I mean the crossbow is not useless at all, unlike ceremonial weapons.

It's not. OP is just a perfidious Anglo that fell for the 1000 times folded true English longbow meme.

like the ak47

I think crossbows can be pretty sexy.

It was so efficient that the Catholic Church tried to ban it.

>This thread should apparently be a post weapons that shaped history thread.

ITT: Memelords dont realise that the English also used crossbows and that one of the few surviving recruitment advice for English soldiers describes how they should be versed in shooting longbows, crossbows and handguns.

The crossbow is ONLY more useful than a longbow if the user is weak or undertrained. Prove me wrong.

Or they are in a situation where they need a loaded weapon for a long time before shooting.

A true Anglo never leaves his longbow lowered or unnocked.

>memes

But it is physically impossible to wander around with it at full draw.

More like a sawed-off shotgun, but I get the point.

Maybe for a frenchy

>memes

Filthy rhodoks

look at this shit

Crossbows are still used as weapons today, bows are not.

Correct, because they can't be fucked to learn to use a bow