Talk:Bow Combat/@comment-24019647-20150706065447/@comment-4530750-20150706154523

Yeah. Shieldbows also don't actually exist.

A lot of the reason archers were so deadly is because they often dipped their arrows in latrines and everyone shot with them was pretty much guaranteed to die of infection beause lolmedievalcampaignsanddoctors. However, this is a different universe, so that would be exponentially harder to do, given how easy herbs and apothecaries are to come by. Also, wizards.

By the way, extremely well-trained archers that spent their lives learning will probably have a warped back because of bows. Many of the skeletons they found that have warped backs were proven to have belonged to bowmen.