Was expecting Graf's color to be grey instead of Kaga's blue.
And she's gonna learn the draw strength of a Japanese longbow.
On the note of bow power, I thought medieval European war bows were a lot heavier than Japanese samurai bows. Because European soldiers had to shoot metal clad soldiers, whereas Japanese soldiers wore leather lamellar, right?
On the note of bow power, I thought medieval European war bows were a lot heavier than Japanese samurai bows. Because European soldiers had to shoot metal clad soldiers, whereas Japanese soldiers wore leather lamellar, right?
Not that she uses a bow to begin with, but still.
Draw weight on a Yumi bow is between 30-45 pounds (14-20 kilograms), however draw weight on an English longbow ranges up to 180 pounds (81 kilograms)
On the note of bow power, I thought medieval European war bows were a lot heavier than Japanese samurai bows. Because European soldiers had to shoot metal clad soldiers, whereas Japanese soldiers wore leather lamellar, right?
Not that she uses a bow to begin with, but still.
Cipher158 said:
Draw weight on a Yumi bow is between 30-45 pounds (14-20 kilograms), however draw weight on an English longbow ranges up to 180 pounds (81 kilograms)
Only Welsh/English Longbows were like that. Most of the rest of Europe used cheap shortbows only really effective against the lightly-armored conscripts that made up the bulk of the armies. If they wanted to pierce armor, they used crossbows. (This was why only the crossbow was banned by the church for use against other Christians - it wanted to protect the wealthy, while letting the peasants die.)
Also, it depends a lot on the era of the Yumi - later bows had more advanced composite construction that allowed for the construction of bows with super-human draw weights. (I've read up to 500 lbs/225 kg.) This was, however, past the era that they were actually used for battle.
In any event, I still kind of hoped to see Graf Zeppelin show up with a ballista or winch crossbow or something.
(This was why only the crossbow was banned by the church for use against other Christians - it wanted to protect the wealthy, while letting the peasants die.)
More to the point, perhaps, it wanted to protect the wealthy from the peasants. Any shlub with a crossbow could kill a high-born, expensively-trained-and-equipped, armored knight, and that would simply never do. Same reason the Japanese largely turned away from firearms technology between about 1600 and 1854: tanegashima made it almost trivially easy for Ordinary People to kill samurai, who previously could more or less only be killed by each other, and the samurai were not interested in letting that state of affairs persist.
