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* [[Annoying Arrows]]: ''Crécy'' is all about how ''truly'' annoying arrows really are, as in how widespread archery put an end to medieval warfare. A ''lot'' of work was put into making arrows into incredibly lethal weapons. They discouraged crossbows as longbows could be quickly strung or unstrung - this meant drawstrings could be removed during rainstorms to keep them dry. Archers were trained to use them as [[Swiss Army Weapon|Swiss Army Weapons]]; they carried [[Trick Arrow|three types of arrowheads]] - normal arrowheads, bodkins for piercing plate armor, swallowheads for killing horses. They sometimes applied the heads to the arrows with candlewax, but they usually just spit on the ends of the shaft to secure them - this ensured that trying to yank out the arrow would cause the head to detach, meaning that one would have to aggravate the wound in the process of removing it. Finally, they stuck the arrows in the dirt prior to firing them - this ensured that contaminants would be carried into the wound. English archers were thus able to take better care of their weapons than French crossbowmen, and those weapons were both more versatile and inherently more lethal.

*** The catch is that the damned things weigh around ''twenty pounds each'', meaning they're too heavy for a crossbowman to carry as part of his ruck while marching - they had to be brought to the battlefield by baggage train. And a good archer can fire a [[Trick Arrow]] ''two'' hundred and fifty yards every ''five'' seconds. Crossbowmen were meant to slaughter infantry, not exchange fire with people who can actually shoot ''back.''

{{quote| '''William of Stonham''': ''These things may look primitive to you, but you have to remember that we're not stupid. We have the same intelligence as you, we simply don't have the same cumulative knowledge you do. So we apply our intelligence to what we have.''}}

* [[Hundred Years War]]

* [[Rain of Arrows]]: The comic explains how it's done in real life. Basically, you teach all your soldiers to shoot at the same range, then everyone fires together and ''something'''s bound to get hit.

{{quote| ''I can kill you from three hundred yards away with '''these.'''''

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