Talk:Longbowman (Age of Empires II)/@comment-112.201.73.178-20200124161130


 * sigh* Even in 2019, AOE2 still can't portray English Longbowmen properly. So many historical inaccuracies with the redesign in the Definitive Edition:

- The back quiver is wrong. Historical longbowmen never placed their arrows in back quivers, but either in arrow bags behind their waists or simply inserted in their belts. I suppose the back quiver is to maintain continuity with the old AOK Longbowman design. Not the biggest flaw.

- The Longbow itself though is an atrocity. It has no cowhorn nocks and features recurved tips, ugh. And that wrapping in the middle of the bow stave is inaccurate as well. Even the bowstrings look funky. And the arrowheads look like they're from the Stone Age. Was it too hard to illustrate bodkin heads?

- Can't fault them on the outfit though, since Medieval armies didn't have uniforms and just wore whatever they liked. But most English archers during the time of Henry V preferred to wear padded jackets with the Cross of St George embossed on the front.