From a layman’s point-of-view it seems like the Bow & Arrow would be better for war since they, shoot much more efficiently, are cheaper to make and in even some cases significantly stronger.
I know that learning to shoot a bow is no easy task so would that be the main reason muskets became so popular?
In my simple man’s brain I’m wondering why you don’t see or hear anything about bows being used during something like the American Revolutionary war. Could it be that by then muskets had reached a certain level of design that made it more useful than a bow?
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One thing I’ve not seen mentioned is that guns make a loud noise and produce fire and smoke. They’d have been useful weapons of psychological warfare even if they couldn’t kill a bill to police insider trading. At Talavera four Spanish battalions routed from the sound of their own volley, fired at a few out-of-range dragoons the day before the actual battle.
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