This is a British long-bowman in anime

This is a British long-bowman in anime

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Somebody didn't do their research.

I didn't even know what a british longbowman was until today. Could you tell us what's wrong with that gif? is it the fact that the guy looks like an american baseball player? pretty solid animation btw

And what is supposed to be wrong about it?

I think longbowmen are supposed to be swole as fuck

If you want to see the British longbowman, read Crecy

Not really. They are only supposed to be stronger in the upper body because of their bow practice. That doesn't mean that they looked like freaks with bulging biceps and back muscles.

Its been an age and a half since I've even seen that mentioned. Guess I'll have to read it again.

Wow, what a cunt.

post_brexit_english_army.gif

I'm no hystoryfag, but Is that really how you use a bow? It looks dumb.

Am I drunk? Google is mainly giving me search results about the ACTUAL Nic Crecy

the most accurate depiction of an Englishman I've ever seen in manga

Crecy is high inaccurate, its just the writer masturbating onto the pages like the cunt he is

I think OP's gif is from Maria, and that show got praised for historically accurate combat and equipment above all else.

bow isn't nearly tall enough, for starters. proper longbows are at least 6-feet in length.

Furthermore, the English didn't start using such helmets until after the shocking battle of Bumfuckshire in 1497.

It is but it's not the only way.

See, the important part is that he's drawing it past his eye, everything after that is aiming.

what are the chances of someone telling me what anime is this gif scene from without involving a low-key trolling atttempt?

>t. shitter-shattered frog

It's "google image search it" no Maria.

I don't give a fuck. Look at those fucking bills. When's the last time you saw a proper bill in early Renaissance media?

Wrong armor. Wrong bow. Wrong use of the bow (that volley stuff is pure cinema, arrows are limited and expensive so actual bowman aimed and direct fired), and the string should be pulled to the cheek to aim. He's doing the equivalent of shooting from the hip. You can jank your shoulder pretty bad the way he's doing it.

thanks. Although I thought this was a serious historical anime and not some comedy. I'm gonna still watch it just for the fight scenes.

You can easily find it with the options that Sup Forums gives you faggot.

This is a Chinese cross-bowman in anime

Haven't they dug up remains of longbowmen and found they looked like mutants because their backs were so fucked up from all their archery shit? That's the only thing I remember about them from school.

you two unbearable cunts should've tried to reverse search yourself before posting these useless comments. It doesnt yield any result.

What he said. Longbowmen were spec ops badasses who were /fit/. And those arrows can penetrate wooden shields.

Wait may be broken but yandex still gets you the result.

I dont use shitty russian products, I'm a Democrat.

>>/out/

For fuck's sake, even google works this one time.
I'm dying here, pal.

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Fuck off and kill yourself.

Unless he stole it from a yuropoor, it's wrong. Chinks should have repeating crossbows if they're not specialised bowmen like le engrish.

Also they had siege crossbows.

A chu-ko-nu?

No. Like i said that animu showed a standard manual-loading westeros crossbow which is inferior to ancient chink recipe!

The weak should fear the strong

>Skirmiser
>Not a negro.

how the fuck did china fall behind? I know the european dark ages were a meme but did china have one we never hear about?

>Skirmisher
>good for any thing after feudal

You can only pick one

Do you wanna know how I know you never played competitive?

longbowmen were literally peasants whose job it was to piss as many arrows from a distance because there's no way they could cut it close range combat like knights/mercs

Yeah pretty much from when qin took over to when the yurops found them

They burned all of their libraries and became isolationists

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French crossbowmen =\= English longbowmen

You had to be pretty swole to piss enough arrows to stop the enemies before they get to you (especially with that draw).

This is not true at all

What baseball anime is this?

>the word cunt is punctuation

Man, as an American I hate how we can't use words like "cunt" and "fag" all the time without someone being offended.

Correct me if I'm wrong but. Weren't thwy still preety OP durong Qin and Hang?
I believe shit started going sown with three kingdoms.

As an Alien, I can't believe how you can not offend yourself by calling your person an American. Cunt.

Can't be an english.
His teeth look fine, he's not morbidly obese an I don't see any signs of drug abuse on his face.

lol do your fucking homework before commenting on things you don't know about.

What are you talking about? Peasants were required to hold the line and trained to use the spear. Very few people had the expenses to maintain their armor and a horse to be considered a knight.

Quite a few. There's one period called "Spring and Autumn" referring to a decline of a certain dynasty for a couple hundred years, "Warring States" lasts a couple hundred years. "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms" lasts about fifty.

Then at some point some emperor really fucks up and the Mongols conquer China, then the Mongols fuck up after the original Genghis Khan (GK is a title) dies, China regains sovereignty, and closes off to the rest of the world (this is why the destruction of the great exploratory "treasure fleets" happened). This would probably be where they fell behind the most.

Then the British came in and drugged everyone.

Then Mao took over.

Also quite a few times all the books were burned. And at one point (Legalism) a bunch of people were killed over really trivial things, including the guy who came up with the idea.

The Chinese look back upon the Han and Tang dynasties as the nice periods (they refer to themselves as "People of Han" or "People of Tang") and the other few thousand years as Sengoku Jidai.

British longbowmen were the most alpha and feared soldier of the time. You were fucked even if you were privileged enough to have full plate.

Jesus Christ no wonder Chinese people don't trust foreigners or even each other.

Just because they didn't have seljuks near by, doesn't mean they were the most feared dude, i would prefer facing longbowmen rather than a cavalry charge with recurve bows any day of the week.

Baseball would be more interesting if the batter had to use their bat to block arrows fired by the pitcher from killing the catcher and umpire.

Why are they dressed as baseball players?

Git gud, somehow I found what is it in just 2 fucking clicks

Repeating crossbows weren't commonly used because they weren't particularly accurate or powerful outside of short range. The average Chinese crossbowman would be using a heavy crossbow.

Is this the new whining and bitching for bongs since they are envious at burgers shameless bitching and whining over guns being useless in fantasy chinese cartoons?

Why is the luck signage upside down?

>(that volley stuff is pure cinema, arrows are limited and expensive so actual bowman aimed and direct fired
Not as far as I can tell. At the battle of Hastings the Norman archers couldn't get hits in with direct fire but inflicted devastating losses with plunging fire.

Later, we see massed volleys being used to harass french forces at the battles of Agincourt and Crecy at ranges far beyond direct fire range.

The technique is actually right for larger bows. With most longbows such as the Yumi and English Longbow you draw past your eye and sometimes to your ear.

>has a chin

It could be better

Great art ruined by the writing

Agincourt volley has been dubunked bro. Also, I know volley was used occasionally, but it was always secondary, where it's about the only thing you see archers that aren't mongols do in the media.

Also, you didn't read what I said about technique. I'm not talking length of draw. Look at them. The hand is drawing across the middle of the breast instead of across the face and shoulder.

Fucking really?

This is cute girl I want to bully in anime.
Her name is Ezekiel.

t. French "knight"

all i wanted was moyashimon s3.

The manga's being translated again though.

How the fuck do you deal with any kind of ranged unit

Looks pretty accurate.

don't insult longbowfus you ignorant fuck

Animu arms aside, strong sinewy arms from years repeated bow training =/= modern definition of swole. His arms are too thin, but he shouldn't look swole.

This.

Ok, the word use to discribe upside down in chinese, rhymes with another chinese word, which means "here".

To hang it upside down gives it a meaning

"LUCK IS HERE"

In that the Maria anime, most of the army was composed by peasants who had literally nothing better to do in their lives to survive, not everyone was a trained elite

>Muh glorious folded over 1000 times norman wood longbow
youtube.com/watch?v=Ej3qjUzUzQg

amazing that at some point japanese manga was the artform with the highest quality in the world

>It's even raining
10/10

He's using proper drawing technique, which allows you to use the larger muscle groups in your back and shoulders rather than your arms to make the actual draw.
This is essential, since pulling the 100+ lb draw weight of a longbow by pure arm strength would wear out even the most swole of men after just a few shots.
One technique that was used by even smaller men was to brace the bottom of the bow on the ground by their feet and lean their entire body forward to bend the bow, meaning they'd only be using their arm strength to hold the bowstring by their face until they're ready to loose.

i was responding to the mention of dark age

dark age refers to the deterioration of culture and intellectual progress

i wasn't commenting on military strength but i should have realized that the context was different, sorry user

British peasants were(and technically still are since the law was never officially rescinded) to practice the longbow every weekend in order to be ready to levy when called by their lord.

That was a fluke you cant compare one set up match to real life battle records

You don't HAVE to hit the knight in the heavy armor. You just have to hit his much larger horse.
That way, knighty-boy is tossed off and if he's lucky, only breaks a few bones before he's captured and ransomed back to his family.

Srsly why are archers just standing in front of eachout and not people wth at least shields and pikes.

They're skirmishers. They wouldn't have the mobility to quickly withdraw should the cavalry decide to charge if they're escorted by shield bearers, and they'd just get in the way of the men-at-arms if they were mixed in with the heavy infantry.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Armour_penetration

Not that user, but arrows weren't doing shit against someone geared in FPM + cuirass + padding. They would shred infantry wearing cloth armor or just a cuirass though.

>Wrong armor, helmet, garb, bow
>Wrong fortifications, positioning, line
>No direction
>No anchor to mouth/jaw
>Underarmor brand armor
>Multiple sidearms
>Not a quiver in sight
>Resting arrow on the left side of the bow
>Nocking arrow with the offset fletching against the limb
>What the actual fuck are these fletchings, anyway
>Loosing arrows against a hunkered and shielded enemy
The English warbow had a fucking retarded 120lbs draw. They practiced this at minimum once a week for several hours. We've found English longbowman skeletons with fused discs in the spine from the wear this puts on the back. They'd have retard levels of arm and core strength.

You draw to 'anchor.' This generally means the corner of your mouth or upper jaw, or you won't be able to aim at all. Your eye needs to be in line with your arrow, and historically, the arrow was rested over your thumb on the right side, rather than over your knuckle on the left. This allowed archers to nock and draw in one motion.

It does some things well and some things kind of shitty, but the shitty is mostly in how it's animated and drawn, if that makes any sense.

Volley fire was absolutely used and used often. Arrows aren't that difficult to fletch. English archers, specifically, prioritized training for range over accuracy.

Chinese repeating crossbows didn't have the energy to hurt anything bigger than a spider. They were mostly used as a means of administering poison, as a 20lbs draw wouldn't deliver much physical trauma.

As far as Chinese ECKSUPLOZSHUNZ, they would've done a lot more work had they put them in something that contains pressure better than paper.

This is true, but only after like 1400.

Well, there was the whole thing with civil wars, scorched earth, and mass starvation, repeatedly, within a century, lasting more than one century. Then Communism, which is never good for anyone.

This is blatantly false. A 120lbs bow at point blank could just barely manage to puncture plate - but just the tip. The chain, leather, and gambeson behind the plate wouldn't let an arrow actually hit your skin. As a result, you could see knights running around with half a dozen arrows sticking out of their armor, completely unharmed except for the brown stains in his pants.
This is accurate. Knights were worth more alive than dead.

Longbows couldn't really stop cavalry charges. Longbows needed infantry and wooden fortifications to protect them, otherwise cavalry would just ride in and mow them down, which is what happened here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Patay

Oh fuck Iove that little family

>An ambush ruined by an animal running into your position that makes someone scream

Holy fuck, you can't make this shit up.

>British longbowman
It's clearly an English Longbow man. By the time the entity of Britain existed, even Scotland's soldiers were using muskets.

this, the heavy cossbow is quite powerful.

youtu.be/LgJNLO6Wyeg?t=2m30s

What? No. That's a Japanese baseball player.

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