Talk:Longbowman (Age of Empires III)/@comment-5814271-20160621123318/@comment-175.101.67.171-20160701102949

In real life one or may be two well shot arrows are enough to kill a person. It doesn't matter whether he's on a horse or a camel or on foot. In game it is not so.

Yeah in hitting practice targets long bows used to hit upto 300 yards but in actual battle upto 180 yards. But the thing is they take time to aim.

Aztecs 'arrow' knights are actually atlatl. I agree. But they used to throw upto 150 yards with hand in battle. Later they started using 'bow' like waepons to hurl atlatl. It can hurl upto 160 yards but with greater force.

The difference between long bow and atlatl:

1)atlatl is designed to be light but strong. Sometimes they are coated with poison. Sometimes clothes are wrapped on it and they are dipped in oil and lit. Long bow is systematically constructed. It needs more force about as high as 900 N.

2)Arrow from long bow is relatively slower but very accurate when compared to atlatl.

In the game British need faster skirmisher, so they increased the speed of long bow men, but they slightly decreased the range to balance the game. Still 26 range is high for an infantry unit.