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Compare [[Macross Missile Massacre]] and [[Flechette Storm]]; see [[Death in All Directions]].
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== Anime ==
* Mages in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' will occasionally fire massive salvos of magic arrows at their opponents. Often with [[Roboteching]].
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* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'':
** Both featured and subverted; Chorh-Gom prison has hundreds of ballistae lining the ledges and battlements, each capable of firing ''frickin' enormous, spear-like arrows''...but [[Badass|Tai Lung]] not only uses these to break open his manacles, he's able to toss them right back at the guards, then kick a volley to stab into the rocky walls, providing him with a way to ascend out of the pit.
:So the Rain of Arrows starts off as a cool motif for the good guys, only to be snatched away and showing off the bad guy's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] instead.▼
▲So the Rain of Arrows starts off as a cool motif for the good guys, only to be snatched away and showing off the bad guy's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] instead.
** Similarly, the rhinos also send down an eye-popping hail of [[Arrows on Fire]], only to have Tai Lung avoid these too by dodging underneath the only protection available, the wooden elevator.
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* During the Hundred Years' War, the English achieved major victories thanks to their longbowmen launching massive clouds of arrows, as in the Battle of Agincourt. This signaled the end of feudalism in France since French knights were being cut down in massive numbers. For an understanding of just how massive, consider the casualty reports from Agincourt. According to the best historical accounts currently available, the English (armed with primarily longbows) lost a minimum of 112 men, while the French knights and footmen suffered losses of approximately 6,000.
:This was the result of an almost obsessive focus on longbow training in England, to the point that sports like golf were at one point banned to prevent them from taking time away from archery. How obsessive? Arming the English longbowmen ''exhausted the country's entire usable supply of yew.'' In the 14th and 15th centuries any European ship arriving in England to trade had to pay a toll in yew bowstaves.▼
:The English at Agincourt had an army that was about five sixths archers. A kind of middle-ages [[Min-Maxing]], with Henry V as royal [[Munchkin]]. The French, on the other hand, were the [[Scrub]] of the piece, convinced that their rules of chivalric and noble combat were the only proper way of making war. Still, despite the English being rather outnumbered, it ended up something of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]].▼
▲This was the result of an almost obsessive focus on longbow training in England, to the point that sports like golf were at one point banned to prevent them from taking time away from archery. How obsessive? Arming the English longbowmen ''exhausted the country's entire usable supply of yew.'' In the 14th and 15th centuries any European ship arriving in England to trade had to pay a toll in yew bowstaves.
▲The English at Agincourt had an army that was about five sixths archers. A kind of middle-ages [[Min-Maxing]], with Henry V as royal [[Munchkin]]. The French, on the other hand, were the [[Scrub]] of the piece, convinced that their rules of chivalric and noble combat were the only proper way of making war. Still, despite the English being rather outnumbered, it ended up something of a [[Curb Stomp Battle]].
* As shown by ''300'', the preferred tactic of the Persians was to sit back and rain arrows on their opponent, then send in the cavalry to finish them off. This failed spectacularly at the Battle of Marathon in 390 BC, where the Greek phalanxes, instead of slowly marching towards the Persians, ran at full speed. This so surprised the Persians that they fired their arrows in panic-and missed by a large margin. Also, no Persian cavalry; the Athenians appeared to have waited until the horsemen were sent off (after 5 days' standoff) before attacking.
* Worth noting that while the trope namer ''is'' quoted in Herodotus's ''[[The Histories|Histories]]'' (and therefore ''still'' [[Older Than Feudalism]]), attributed to a Spartan named Dienekes, it may have been apocryphal.
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