Re: rifles

---"Downer, Chris" <Chris.Downer@?????????.com> wrote:
>
>
> > > 	The Welsh Longbow was armor piercing.
> >
> > Why?	How?	What's your definition of armor piercing?
> >
> >
> 	Well it's pretty self explanatory, The armor of the day could be
> easily pierced by the arrow fired from these bows.


it was a combination of this bow ( 100 to 150lbs draw weight ) and a
triangular arrow head that about 2 inches long and 1/2 inch across at
any point that would pierce armor  and arrow head did not have sharped
edges , just a sharp point  and it was specially tempered so that the
tip was harder than the rear, if your campaign is low tech ( haven't
figured out how to temper metals so that there are multiple hardness
zones on a single piece of metal) then this should not be available to
them, as both the Long bow and the special arrowheads here needed to
pierce armor effectively
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