>From a history channel show on Troy (and other research, I don't believe
*everything* I see on TV!), a bow of the period had about the range of a
javelin (puny little things!) - you had to be *close* to take out your
opponent (and the shields were big enough that almost any hit was taken on
the shield). Most arrows probabbly wouldn't have stuck.
On another front, in the Stories of William of Orange (No, not the one that became King of England, the one that was the second generation of Charlemagne's Peers after Roland et al. were slaughtered at Roncesvalles), William complains about how stingy Big Charlie is, saying "The only new studs in my shield are the heads of lances embedded there".
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
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