chainmail is better against slashing, but it's not useless against arrows. It's not easy to break a ring of a good mail, and even if the missile succeeds in doing this, it usually has not enough energy to seriously injure the target. Don't forget that under the armor there always was some type of padded protection, that is perfect to dissipate the remaining energy of the arrow.
The best way to deal with a chainmail is 1) a blunt weapon, that however perform bad against the padded armor under the mail, or 2) a melee weapon with a point small enough to penetrate a ring
3) the best, to aim at an uncovered part of the body : an Italian swordmaster, Massimo Malipiero, has recently did a study about the most common wounds on the battlefields of northern Italy in late middle-ages, and it results that most of injuries was suffered at the face, the easiest to hit big uncovered spot in the whole body, usually
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