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		Jap2-0 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Archers Didn't Volley Fire > There's no evidence of it in contexts where we would expect something like this to be mentioned. What are those contexts?

margalabargala 9 months ago [–]

Firsthand accounts of battles involving massed archers.

empiko 9 months ago | [–]

I think the most obvious context is visual art. There are thousands of depictions of medieval battles. Would really nobody think of depicting a volley of arrows in any of them? That would be a pretty spectacular sight with supposedly devastating effect.

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