I kind of want to remove the Longbow from my next session 0 and setting. Set the adventure to be paralleled to right before the time of the Battle of Agincourt (OPpic) in our time.
Have the party show up to a battlefield, and get peppered from 600 feet away by sharpshooter-feated base humans and watch the party freak out.
Think that'd be an accurate way to teach PCs about how new military advancements made combatants scratch their heads in confusion and terror?
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SIR WHAT'S KILLING US? MAGIC?
No, it's just a fucking slightly bigger bow
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Isn't 600 feet a bit generous? You don't want to fire in an arc, that gets you nowhere.
I haven't practiced archery in 8 years though, and I definitely didn't use anything as heavy as any european warbow.
>Shadiversity
If we go with what he said, we can give Orcs 8 ft warbows that could break insane distances.
>Think that'd be an accurate way to teach PCs about how new military advancements made combatants scratch their heads in confusion and terror?
No, the players will know full well what bows are, so they won't scratch their heads at all. Not that the longbow was in any way new or unknown to the French at Agincourt either, it had been widely used in the 100 years war since before anyone fighting there was even born. On the other hand...
>no, you can't have any bows, because reasons
>the enemy has a massive number of archers all of sudden, you're in deep shit, look how clever I am!
You'll come across as a right old wanker. Which is fitting, since you're swallowing the longbow wank straight up by the looks of it. Agincourt was won by English knights on foot holding a well-chosen position with some help form the longbows. Not the other way around. If you want to see the longbow performing on its own, try Paray.
What are you talking about, user?
nononono, just taking out the Longbow. From what I've injested about martial history, the English Longbow was a huge deal, and it seems like such a dumb thing to get beat by. "Damnit! Why didn't we think about making a -bigger- bow?"
For a better example of military dominance, think the use of the shortbow-cavalry in uh... what was the byzantine army that got destroyed by kiting horse archers in that one fight...
>Why didn't we think about making a -bigger- bow?
Like the other user said, longbows weren't a new thing and had been around for, I dunno, about a hundred years or more. It was the English longbow*men* who really fucked the French in the war, because for a lot of it the Valois were still relying on landed knights (who treated the mercenaries and infantry they did have like shit), while the English kings just kept pumping out a fuckton of dirty peasants who'd been practicing archery since they were seven.
Why would anyone want to shoot from 600 feet away. All you're going to do is waste arrows, get tired faster, have very bad accuracy and probably do little damage.
It really wasn't a huge deal to anyone but the English.