Quote Originally Posted by Zajuts149
I'm no physicist, but since someone put up the speeds of 45 and 60 m/s of a longbow arrow, I'll use 50 m/s as a mean speed throughout the arrows flight for the example. If the archers started shooting at extreme range, which has been stated as 250m by some sources(+/- 50m by some), that would give the arrow(please feel free to do real calculations to correct me) an estimated parabolic flight distance of some 350-400m.
Wow, did you just guessed that ??? 'Cause you're darn close :
at 250m range, an arrow fired at 60 degree angle will travel exactly 345m (parabolic trajectory, drag effects on flight path ignored).