[Ansteorra-archery] Couple things

[Mike Wyvill]

To echo HL Jean Paul's statement, archers can do that to formations. Anyone who was in the castle at Gothic War 2007 can attest that they were driven from the walls by archers. They formed a shield wall inside and archers whittled down their numbers until frankly in my case, I just stopped shooting. No more targets.
 
There is a reason that Trimarans call the Company of Saint Sebastian the 'Black Bastards' and our friends from Gleann Ahbann call us 'The Sebastards'. We can and do thin units so the shields/spears/polearms can move forward and take and hold flags. We operate about in small groups attack a protion of the line from different angles. It works well. The sudden appearance of one of us, bow drawn, can stop a fighter in his tracks. Last year in the ravine on at least one occassion two of us did that, the opposing line faltered, and the Midrealmers smashed into the gaps created. 
 
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:54:29 -0600From: paul.v.thorne at gmail.comTo: ansteorra-archery at lists.ansteorra.orgSubject: Re: [Ansteorra-archery] Couple thingsSir Morgan,   I believe you have the right of it.  As most experienced archers could tell you, we can make entire shield walls cover up and worry about one bolt/arrow coming their way rather easily.  How many of us have heard the "Archer UP" come rolling across quickly followed by an entire line of shields going high?  This can be done without a bolt even on the crossbow if you do it right.  So, knowing that response to a single archer we then add in multiple archers and (this is important) "aimed" mass fire and I think you have a formula for success.  One on one, most fighters have little to fear from Combat archers, but in mass and in melee too many people have trouble focusing on multiple threats, let's use that to our advantage.   If you stagger the mass fire and come in from several angles there isn't much that a shield wall can really do if a group of archers is out for them.  They have two choices, duck and cover hoping for the best or break their formation and try to get through to kill the archers.  Either way they are no longer fighting the big fight but merely trying to survive.  If we can force a portion of a line to standstill or break away to try and get to the archers have we not succeeded in forcing them to fight our fight?  

 
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