Saba units for next release

[Sarcasm]

Not if you weatherproof them with laquer or similar. The European horn-stave crossbows worked well enough in the North as long as proper care was taken, after all.

Indeed but point is, it was one other thing to watch out for and every little complications makes a weapon less and less likely to be used by a large number of soldiers, becoming essentially reserved to a few contingents. There were cases of composite bows being used in almost every area of Europe at one time or another but it never got to the point where it'd replace the much simpler self bow or later on the crossbow (which had a whole new set of advantages to an European soldier).

[Watchman]

Which really speaks more of difficulties in producing the things rather than maintaining them, now doesn't it ? Remember that the infamously vicious Russian continental weather never kept anyone from using composite bows there - around the steppe part anyway. The further into the northern forest belt you went the rarer composite bows became and the more the wooden longbow reigned supreme.

[Sarcasm]

Which really speaks more of difficulties in producing the things rather than maintaining them, now doesn't it ? Remember that the infamously vicious Russian continental weather never kept anyone from using composite bows there - around the steppe part anyway. The further into the northern forest belt you went the rarer composite bows became and the more the wooden longbow reigned supreme.

Well when it comes to bows, they're really a close thing especially in what concerns composite ones. But I see your point, perhaps its one of those cases where there wasn't a need to innovate since there was already something cheaper and easier to make/maintain. Any new technology would find it hard to implement itself where there's already a pre-existing one that can be fielded more easily.