Talk:Longbowman (Age of Empires II)/@comment-5814271-20170220104529/@comment-121.202.87.237-20171101021943

Historically Bows have alot longer reach via arching shots; the reason that crossbow is more popular in Europen is because most fightings are small scale battles that focus on siege, where the short reach of corssbow is not an issue.

English Longbow are exceptionally powerful not only becaue of their draw weight, but the heavy arrow that they use, which retain more kenetic energy.

Horses taking a few hits would likely to dismount the rider one way or the other, to say that equal anti-cavalry is not fair to the shear power of the Longbow man; maybe another damage buff would be more accurate given they will not get thumb ring.