New Unit: Scots Guard

[Randarkmaan]

Longbows were inferior to composite bows? I don't believe it.

A composite bows construction gives it a draw weight and therefore a strength and range of a bow of simple construction that is many sizes larger. However i do think that the English longbow (originally the Welsh) were constructed a little differently, actually the usual bow in nearly the entire world was a longbow it's simply that; a long bow(it had to be long to have a decent strength and range), heck Nubians also used longbows. The English also used their special bodkin arrows which were quite heavy which helped them punch through armour (also remember that the effective killing range of a longbow was only a little over 50 meters and to penetrate armour they had to be closer).

Anyway to make all this really short... Why would anyone use a bow on a wide scale that is much harder to construct if a bow of simple construction is more effective? Also you know who were regared as the best archers in Europe for quite some time? Sicilian Arabs using composite bows... they were widely utilized by the Normans.