| Zandel_Corrin |
| (Sergeant Major) |
| 06/17/09 09:27 PM |
| 123.2.140.247 |
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Re: MechWarrior personal weapons
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I made an error it was 700 feet not yards. And that was arching the arrow.
The medieval English longbow had a draw-weight of 100-120 pounds and a practical range of around 250 yards.
There is no way an arrow will travel a mile and a half. A modern .22 long rifle round can reach 1.5 miles but there is no chance that it will hit anything.
Got my metric and imperial conversions messed up again... 2500 FEET not yards...
The effective range with flat trajectory is around 250 - 300 METERS depending on the skill of the archer... that's killing range (modern bows with only half the power go up to 200 meters but have lighter arrows so not half the range like you'd expect)
And the volley range was closer to 700 meters not yards or feet..... tho they never really used that as well as then should have.... in most battles they were used only up to 300 meters to save ammo.