(06-08-2015, 08:35 PM)Hammersmith Wrote: Yeah. Â One of the bigger points of plate was that it was MUCH EASIER to raise an army of rifle-users than it was to get an entire army of plate users. Â Then you ran into mobility and the like and it meant the rifle users had more immediate lethality that was easier to train than a longbow. (The english did so well with theirs because every male, supposedly, was at some point required to train with it every day after church, punishable by...something...if you missed)plate armour, when correctly fitted, didn't present much in the way of a hinderance to mobility. It was pretty much a second skin or extension of the body, with greater range of movement than the person inside.
Guns arn't "worse" than an archer really, since in RP you're not going to be mustering entire platoons of them onto the field.
However, yes, it is a hell of a lot easier, and cheaper to equip an army with musket/arquebus/longbow etc.
Also, our longbowmen, (as featured in Agincourt and other such fights) were predominantly Welsh.
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