Quote Originally Posted by The Blind King of Bohemia
Many retainer longbowmen would have been armoured, depending what they could afford. If it was for a wealthy Lord, say William De Bohun, Earl Of Northampton in the early parts of the HYW he would have been paid very well and could arm himself much better than a normal archer who were armed normally with a close fitting helmet, a padded jakke and his weapons.

The scots did on occasion use the great warbow especially in the lowland forests such as Selkirk but they didn't have the training or the numbers of Longbowman the armies of Edward 1st, Edward the third and Henry V had.
true, but what is importnat here is to judge to what extent "heavily armoured archers" can be. From pictorial sources i've encountered, the heaviest type of armour seen on Archers were transitional armours of the Longbowmen of the Compagne D'Ordannance de Burgundie. Burgundian longbowmen usually wore a mixture of brigadine with mail or transitional armour(if i got that term right. I mean mixture of brigadine and breastplate).

Check out Schilling Chronicles for heavy armoured longbowmen.

The unit itself looks sweet, but i hate the chapel-de-fer warhat being present in late era