User blog comment:Aramirtheranger/I have had it!/@comment-26347028-20160611150241/@comment-26863727-20160612233144

You can shut up.

Armor is worn with padding beneath, meaning that a half inch dent will do shit.

There is no real gap between the gorget and the helmet. There are only six mail only spots. The armpits, insides of the elbows, the backs of the knees, and the groin. To shoot an arrow into any of those is a highly unrealistic goal.

Of course the Romans understood a "few inches" will kill! If I took a freaking gladius and impaled a man with it, of course he's going to be seriously injured! But the Romans had no archers of their own, and besides, after the Carthaginians they were mostly fighting people who had basically no armor.

Yes, and you know what the arbalest's winch was for? Because 95% of people can't pull back a 300 lb bow. Oh, and the typical historical longbow was somewhere between 80 and 100 lbs.

You know what else gets messed up in the rain? Animal gut string like what a bow would be made with. And if it's a recurve, the bow itself will fall apart! As for your other two, those are bullshit. An arrow has more total area to push on, meaning that the wind affects bow accuracy more. Besides, there's this bizarre thing called compensation for the breeze. And unless you're lurking in the bushes with an axe there is nothing preventing me from waltzing out to the range tonight and practicing with my crossbow. The only thing that allows or disallows the last two is whether or not you have the skill(which is much easier to obtain with a crossbow) and the eyesight.

Yes, but quite a few shots deflected off, leaving only a small dent, which would have been negligible with padding beneath, which was always done.

I did not. They are. And no, I didn't. I just noted that it can provide "some protection", never discussing what level of protection from modern guns. However, breastplates were in fact immune to pistols up to some time in the 1600s according to my research.

Good day, and stop trying to provoke me.