Talk:Slinger (Age of Empires II)/@comment-111.161.26.10-20150607022410/@comment-86.125.207.79-20151129041227

As armour quality and thickness improved it became rather common to switch into buldgeoning weapons/perforating weaponry(see morning star/hammer/hand cannon as examples) like wise regular arows don't do jack against a well armored unit but a heavy stone propelled from smb violently rotating a 'long sling' at the elbow/shoulder level has a good chance to dent plate armor(thus impairing mobility) or break a bone/smash a joint for smb in chain/leather armour... also amo is easily aquired in the form of what ever reasonable sized stones are encountered in the area... then theres the nasty practice of slinging oil filed pots as well...

Anyways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_%28weapon%29#The_Americas for some more info on what slings can actually do...