How would you avoid being fucked by arrows in the past and what

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>>31831163
Mail and plate armor, mantlets.

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Use a big shield

>>31831264
Would the arrow pearce the shield

>>31831163
Mail and Gambeson combo will do the job for most arrows, but only plate will keep you 100% safe.

I heard somewhere that arrows were mostly fired up in volleys like artillery, but that was from a documentary or something about the Hundred Years' War, don't know if the tactics were different in the ancient period.

If they weren't much different, maybe being in a forest would help, the forest canopy could get the arrows tangled up and slow their velocity.

Zigzag. The targeting AI will aim in front of you and will miss most times.

Or use Protect From Missiles prayer.

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The best way not to get fucked by bowmen is not to get in their line of sight. Sure, if you're some sort of peasant conscript then you're fucked since Shiny will be pushing you and your kith exactly there but if you've got a name then you have some agency.

Cover, concealment, not being there, and low visibility are you friends.

What you really have to look out for, if you aren't retarded, are thrown missiles. Even a fist sized rock can fuck you up for life. You never know when MacSheepShlag will pull out a wardart out of his ass and throw it at you.

I would invent the gun and protect myself from arrows by making them obsolete.

>>31831390
Try doing that in a battle of hundreds. You'll just die. The only way to live is to betray Mr.Braveheart let the English rule you as they please.

>>31831388
>Protect From Missiles
My nigga

>>31831407
Like I said, don't be a footman.
Also, clobber people in the dark. Better if you don't want to die from an arrow.

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>>31831163
By inventing the musket and bayonet