| Tango01 | 31 Oct 2016 9:09 p.m. PST |
Interesting discussion here… link
Ah!… nobody said there… but there were Russian units armed with bows who has been in combat against the French in some Napoleonic Battles…
Amicalement
Armand |
79thPA  | 01 Nov 2016 5:01 a.m. PST |
I am sure the Ottomans would have had some bow armed troops as well. |
| 4th Cuirassier | 01 Nov 2016 7:42 a.m. PST |
There is a picture in Uniforms of the Retreat from Moscow of a Bashkir horse archer! |
| Pan Marek | 01 Nov 2016 8:34 a.m. PST |
The linked discussion seems to assume that we are smarter than the folks living in the age of the musket. There are primary sources that attribute the decline of the longbow to lack of practice. Native Americans wanted firearms as soon as they saw them, and fought almost exclusively with muskets as early as the 1680s. Who are we to second guess those who experienced things first hand? |
| rmaker | 01 Nov 2016 7:55 p.m. PST |
I have to say that anybody who thinks he's going to stop a bear with a 50-pound pull bow deserves what the bear is going to do to him. |
| Tango01 | 02 Nov 2016 11:28 a.m. PST |
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| 4th Cuirassier | 02 Nov 2016 2:12 p.m. PST |
I am always puzzled by the effectiveness of ballistae in ancient times. AIUI these were essentially big bow-like weapons that mechanically threw a 3 or 4lb weight a couple of hundred yards. Compared to a Napoleonic artillery piece that chemically threw a 3 or 4lb weight several times further, ans was even then a bit feeble, why did anyone give a stuff about being under ballista fire? |
| Brechtel198 | 02 Nov 2016 3:00 p.m. PST |
The French called the Bashkirs, et al, Cupids because of their bows. |
| 14Bore | 04 Nov 2016 4:51 p.m. PST |
If you have a Russian Napoleoic Army and no bow armed Bashkirs you're not really trying. |
 piper909 | 07 Nov 2016 10:13 p.m. PST |
I am always intrigued by this sort of discussion, since I remember in earlier days of wargaming reading English longbow enthusiasts earnestly arguing that a longbow army could have chewed up Napoleon at Waterloo due to high rate of fire and no armor protection by their opponents. But then, I also remember reading debate whether or not Alexander's Macedonian army with its pikes and missile troops and heavy cavalry could have done the same thing. |
| Retiarius9 | 11 Nov 2016 1:17 p.m. PST |
the battle of zorndorff by wojciech kossak has a cossack firing a parthian shot with his bow at prussian curraisiers , very cool painting, albeit 7 years war |
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
