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Ummm?
How is the arm guard supposed to make you stronger?

Hehe. Just noticed Archonsods post also mentioning the idea.
Didnt realice it since it topic name didnt mention it.

Its called arm guard.
I think it would be silly if they made you shoot faster. The only thing they really do is protect from the string. Nothing else. String striking at your wrist can hurt like hell if you dont wear it. Beliave me...I'av tryed.
Allthough some archers dont even use it since due their shooting style and highter string height the string never comes too close to the wrist.

Why dont just make impossible to draw with heavy cloves or add negative affects on accuracy etc?

Kohtalontoveri.
Jos joku ois todella niin ystävällinen... voisin maksaa muutaman egen ylimääräistä.
Visaa ei ole saatavilla eikä osuuspankin visa electron toimi...Argh...

Bodkin arrow might not take you down instantly if it doesnt hit anything too vital, but gettting hit by arrow will certainly affect your ability to fight. People might run after being shot in movies, but in real life it just doesnt work that way. A charging knight in saddle might have continued his charge even when shot, but I beliave most footmen where down by the time they had arrow in their cuts.

When people talk about bows they tend to forgot that there are huge variety of bow-weights. Huntingbows these days have around 40-70pounds draw-weight, as english medieval warbows were up to 200pounds weight. Pretty much no-one can even pull a bow like that these days. You can penetrate a bullet proof vest with arrow. It wouldnt have no trouble penetrating thinner plate-armor if it hitted it straight, but it would have very likely to pounce away if hitted from an angle. This is why they made armor as roundish and smooth as possible.

Bodkin heads werent that heavy. English longbowmen shot up to 300meters. I bit heavier arrow might have reduced the range by a bit but less than 100meters for sure. All war-arrows were made heavy as it greatly increased the penetration.

Everything i have heard english longbowmen shot mostly bodkins(In warfare that its). Why in in earth would they been more expensive than broadheads? You dont need hight quality carbon steel, you dont need accurate tempering and you dont even need to sharpen it. They are more expensive in the game, but its pretty obvious since they are more powerfull.

I shoot a bow in RL. Wooden recurved bow actually.
Of course arrow has the most speed just after it has been shot, but the speed doesnt lower too dramatically after that either. You probably wouldnt notice a big difference of and arrow shot from 10 meter or 100 meters.

I think bows are pretty realistic in M&B, although they are a bit underpowered. In mediavel times bows were HEAVY. There have been found old longbows up to 200lb and I could say noone could pull a bow like that these days. 50lb is pretty typical hunting bow weight and you could even penetrate a moose with it, unless you hit any big bones. And not everyone would have the strength to pull 50lb bow either.
Bows should be actually more powerfull than most crossbows. Even though crossbow would be heavyer to pull than a bow it could still be less powerfull. Bows have longer arrows since have longer pull. This means that the string pushes the arrow forward for a longer way and this gives the arrow more velocity.

IMO the shooting system in M&B is pretty nice. Actually its the best i have seen. But there are some things that seems pretty funny. In RL archer should allways be able to keep their bow in full draw for attleast 10 seconds without any shaking. In M&B you cant hit anything if you pull the bow more than like 3 seconds. You really cant get tired that soon. Attleast if you have powerdraw hight over the bows powerdraw requirements.

And if you shoot a naked river pirate with a war bow, the arrow really doesnt get stuck in the guys chest. It would go all the way through and it could kill several other river pirates standing behind the first one. I know people who have shot 2 deers with 1 arrow.

One more:

--I want to see enemy surrender. If 10 knights are charging towards 1 lousy bandit wouldnt it be realistic him to surrender? Peasants and townsmen shouldnt fight as bravely as battle hardened soldiers. If enemy would surrender it would also make manhunting more woth the efford.

I dont think that sword in the picture is not a real Damascene/damascus(whatever) blade.
The real damascene was not made because of looks but to make a good blade even when made from rather bad materials.
I think the forging method was orginally invented somewhere in middle-east

Zaltor_K said:

-- Formations for Soldiers

-- No pause on the mini-map when the horse stops. (Dunno if there is a way to stop this already.)

-- Ability to build and create your own castle/keep somewhere on the map or in the lands of the court you server

-- Enlarge cities. Make each one unique.

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I have ben hoping to get most of these things too.

--Formations or attleast more commands to your soldiers

--big cities. I want to ride on streets and see local people moving around

-- I want my own place to live in. Maybe even just a small house or something

-Less friendly bandits. Why do bandits only steal small part of your money when they the knock you down?

Thx for reply ipek.

Cleitan said:

Yeah and it will cost 25$ but I already got it for 12$!!!!

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Good for you...

Well...gotta just wait few moths...its not that long...
Okey, its far too long but no can do.