Some stuff on stuff

[Scott Adams]

At 05:59 PM 4/2/02 +0200, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:23:19AM -0500, Choinski, Burton wrote:
>> ||>Given how nasty it could be to have some archer pumping deadly and
>> ||>serious wounds into you, I think it is reasonable.
>> ||
>> ||True.  Just seems like in all those movies the archers have the day
>> ||won most times based on their sheer reloads.  What was it the
>> ||Roman archers could load and reload a bow in 8.5 seconds according
>> ||to old records?  Some history i read somewhere....those would likely
>> ||be longbows...
>>
>> Hello!?  McFly!  8.5sec = 3 phases.  I have bowmen take only 1 phase to
>> reload, and you complain, when real life has them take 2 phases? :}
>
>So..
>
>1) I can't seem to find anything about reload times for normal bows
>(non-crossbows) in the books. Where is it?
>
>2) Isn't it great that the Romans had these real accurate watches?
>Seriously though, I'm wondering where those 8.5 seconds came from? Seems
>rather slow to me. Or is that two loads (as in "load and reload a
>bow...")? That would mean 1 phase per shot.

Like I said originally the 8.5 figure was from some historian gave the
figure. 
It
was on a series about Rome and such.  Didn't need clocks for it just a simple
calculation on fingers :)

I guess that was the average figure for the elites but the historian didn't
say
if it was elites or regularers..


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