Quote Originally Posted by Michaelis
Sure, sure. This is why the English abandoned the bow sometime in the early Middle Ages and introduced a new type of ranged attack infantry - Brawny Slingers.

Dream on.
I absolutely second Spendios.

And there have been several extensive threads about "Slingers overpowered" or "slingshot vs. arrows", which exhaustively discussed the issue, including links to experiments, citations from original texts and whatever else you like. So no need to hijack this post. And change it into the exact thing it tries to explain. Please use the search function instead.