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I followed the cited source for the wikipedia claim, and it’s just a guy writing a paper and saying his opinion. He’s not citing anything deeper to cover his claim about an initial volley followed by targetting individual solders. Just because it’s in a paper doesn’t mean it’s right, or even well-researched.

Sure, it FEELS right, and that does have weight with living history and experimental archeology, but I worry that “feeling” is the only thing anyone is actually citing in this whole conversation, including Wikipedia.

Nobody was holding a ~90lb war bow at full draw waiting to hear “Loose”. Not possible.

Volley fire wasn’t a thing with bows. You ever try holding a 90lb war bow at full draw waiting for someone to yell “Loose”? Never happened.

When you carry a hammer, everything is a nail.

left tends to be pro-social for solutions, right tends to be pro-violence for solutions, so… yeah…

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