>Horseback archers start shooting at your party >Your party

>>53890902

punch the gm

The horse archers cannot shoot if the gm can't roll dice

>forest ambush
>retreat to a narrow pass
>invent gunpowder

>>53890902
>Die
or
>Surrender

And probably curse the gm, for breaking all our ranged weapons.

>>53890902
Roll to seduce!

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>53890902
Whip a rock at them.

1. Their accuracy will be shit shooting FROM a bumpy moving horse, AT another moving object
2. They will run out of arrows eventually
Therefore use cover or an object as a shield until they run out.

>>53890902
Play a monk, run them down.

Find cover. Call them cunts from the cover.

>>53890956
1.) Wrong.

2.) 'Let an enemy shoot me until he has no ammo' is not a strategy.

Better hope you have cover or heavy armor and a shield.

>>53890956
>Therefore use cover or an object as a shield until they run out.

Mules arrive to resupply the aggressors.

>>53890956
Have you not heard of Mongolian horse archers?

>>53890902
Build a wall

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>>53891078

I know lots of people think OP's scenario is unrealistic, but there are lots of people in the Paizo thread who will do just this. When discussing Starfinder, a sci-fi RPG, and the recent article they put out about the guns, we failed to convince someone to pack even a basic pistol.

Then we got into a conversation about people only bringing Axes on a Traveller character.

>>53891078
WTF? Mules just appear out of nowhere and resupply them? Fuck your game Steve. I'm tired of your shit.

>>53890902
>Your party has no ranged weapons
>Your party has no magic users

What the fuck happened during session 0?

>>53891237
You got robbed by mongolians.

>>53891237
There are people who don't understand.

They just, DO NOT understand that you should bring a ranges option along.

>>53890902

Throw down weapons and surrender

Turns into sidequest where the party has to join the tribe by completing various challenges where they have to work together.
Magical bows and sturdy steeds are the loot
Also gives a +4 bonus to riding and proficiency

>>53890902
>>Your party has no ranged weapons
>>Your party has no magic users
I blame myself for not providing at least one of these.

>>53891254
Well, more the lack of magic I guess. Since my group refuses to play anything but 3.PF, I'm skeptical that we don't have a single Wizard of Cleric to trivialize things.

>>53890902
Too bad, I fall prone and hide.

>>53890902
Towershields, Caltrops, Smokesticks, and Poison.

>>53890902
Block arrows until they run out or fling rocks with an ad hoc sling.

>>53890902
>Your party has no ranged weapons
>Your party has no magic users
I give up, so I can roll a new character that meets what the party needs.

>>53890928
>>invent gunpowder
harder than it looks, you need some shitty mineral no one knows where it is

>>53890928
>invent gunpowder
Guncotton

Curse the horse lords and their superiority in what I'm guess they have terrain advantage, while at the same time calling my paladin steed to make chase to these cowards and dispense justice in the form of maiming all but one so I can hang him from the neck until dead in front of his wounded comrades, whos maimed wounds I shall heal so they may sally forth and spread word of what happens to Chad's who nah face a warrior of chivalry in fair combat

>>53890902
Run into the woods down a narrow road and hope to god the halfling finished setting up that razorwire trap.

Die and make a party with magic users and ranged support

who makes a party full of fighters

>>53890902
Dig a hole.

>>53890902
This is why they have Parry Missile Weapons and the power to stop time just long enough to run really fucking fast

>>53890902
Run like hell under smoke from a smokestick that I have.
Retreat into a cavern complex to plan an ambush or wait things out.
Attack at midnight when the horses and riders are sleeping.

>>53891635
Next encounter will be how do you stop a german barbarian ambush from raping you with their first volley of javelins.

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>>53890902
>Now one of the Huns who was fighting before the others was making more trouble for the Romans than all the rest. And some rustic made a good shot and hit him on the right knee with a sling, and he immediately fell headlong from his horse to the ground, which thing heartened the Romans still more. -Procopius

Pick up some rocks and start slinging.

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>>53890902
Pic related.

Wait until they run out of arrows or get bored.

>>53891890
Does not work though in real life.
Apparently archers are better shots in reality than in films as mooks.

go into the forest right behind me

>>53891029
>2.) 'Let an enemy shoot me until he has no ammo' is not a strategy.
It is when you've got barbarian levels of meat points.

>>53891921
Depends on how big your shields are and how well armored you are.

>>53891948
Arrows are meant to penetrate both shield and armor.
Hence why they are piercing.

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>>53891921
>Does not work though in real life.

Then why was it widely used then?

>>53891982
>Then why was it widely used then?

As stated by historians, it is not outside of sieges?

>>53892002
Sieges are the only times archers would be a problem.

>>53891982
By zues look at those exposed ankles

>>53890902
GM is an idiot. Horseback archery was more or less just outside of spear chuck range to just comfortably outside of spear stab range.

It's not long range shooting at all.

>>53892031
No, sieges are when rocks would be a problem.
Well-made arrows pierce though and lodged into the flesh.

The issue is rocks are fucking cheap and anyone can hurl one without training hence they are a problem during sieges.

The formation still won't last against an archer barrage hence why they only used them during the final stages of a siege after the all the arrows are spent on auxiliaries.

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>>53891967
>Arrows are meant to penetrate both shield and armor.

I have a feeling no one in this thread knows what they're talking about

>>53892100
>he thinks the quality of the arrow matters more than the quality of the bow
Also rocks are shit, shields aren't used to block rocks dumbass

>>53891967
Your thinking if longbows buddy and even then at the range to do both a sword is more practical

>>53892136
You are truly retarded.

>>53891199
What kind of shitty sci-fi rpg doesn't give players a gun by default?

>>53892157
You sure won the argumetn

>>53892130
I know how to dig holes.

>>53891495
Useless until your metallurgy is really good and you can fabricate stuff with precision in the tenth of a milimeter reliably.
That everybody else couldn't produce metal for barrels and locks that can contain the pressure of smokeless powder was the main reason why Yrop owned most of the world for about a hundred and fifty years.

>>53891967
kek

I'm trying to remember the show, but in in it guys were running around in plate, and getting janked by short bows. It was seriously retarded. Like heavy armor existed solely to look cool, like storm trooper armor.

>>53892153
>longbows
Bud, Longbows alone won't do the trick, because the Welsh sure didn't rule the seas.

It's english voodou that made wooden sticks lauch two hundred arows per minute and made them penetrate knight's armour so hard that their social class died out and the middle ages ended.

>>53892200
Are you fucking retarded? China has been used gunpowder and cannons for a millennia before Europe ever discovered gunpowder

>>53892200
Naw. Metalurgy isn't as important as you think, it just makes the cannons light enough to move rapidly.

You can make a cannon out of wood, depending on how expendable you think your artillerymen are.

>>53890946
The rock hits one of the horses in the head, causing it to stumble and fall into the path of the two others.
All horses and 2 Archers are dead.
One is heavily injured. You see that its a young female elf.
wat do?

>>53890902
I fire my grappling hook at their horse and pull the two of us together so i can hit them with my crazy weapon.

Rolled 7, 4, 8, 8 = 27 (4d10)

>>53890902
Grab a rock and throw it at her.
I have 4 dice (5 from Aim + 4 from Throwing Proficiency - 3 from Long Range - 2 from her moving away from me) at ATN7 and deliver level wound 1 (ST6 - TOU4 - AV1) on hit plus any bonus successes from a good throw.

Rolled 5, 6 = 11 (2d6)

>>53892415
That's a bloody good throw right here. Let's see where it hit here.

Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>53892450

>>53890902
I kill them with a thought since I'm a high-level psionic.

>>53892450
>>53892480
Rock hits the girl right on her left knee, shattering it. She falls from her horse stunned by the sudden pain, unable to control the animal with only one leg.

Don't fuck with us, you dirty nomads.

>>53892415
>>53892450

(Boom, Headshot!)
Your projectile careens right into her temple. It's not a lethal blow, but her jerked response from the impact and pain causes her to roll off the right side of her mount-or at least not entirely. Her ankle remained in its stirrup while the archer's horse still galloped along, not ceasing its momentum. The very angle of her quasi-dismount twists and wrenches her angle, making for a difficult and painful ride ahead of her.

first time trying to write something this, pls no bully

>>53892172

Das Boot In Space, I'd assume. What with not wanting a player's shot to overpenetrate through the hull and kill everyone aboard.

>>53892297
>>53892349
Guncotton/smokeless powder is a whole lot fucking more powerful than blackpowder, bubs. When the french upgraded their rifles to smokeless, everybody basically shat their pants because their blackpowder guns didn't have the reach to lay effective fire on the French.

>>53892876
How do we steal it?

>>53892580
Not bad at all

>>53890902
Start over with a party that isn't total shit.

Plutarch lays it down for us:

> And when Crassus ordered his light-armed troops to make a charge, they did not advance far, but encountering a multitude of arrows, abandoned their undertaking and ran back for shelter among the men-at‑arms, among whom they caused the beginning of disorder and fear, for these now saw the velocity and force of the arrows, which fractured armour, and tore their way through every covering alike, whether hard or soft.

/tg/ replies:

>>53890956
>They will run out of arrows eventually
>>53891207
>WTF? Mules just appear out of nowhere and resupply them? Fuck your game Steve. I'm tired of your shit.
>>53891890
>Wait until they run out of arrows or get bored.

Plutarch explains:

>Now as long as they had hopes that the enemy would exhaust their missiles and desist from battle or fight at close quarters, the Romans held p391out; but when they perceived that many camels laden with arrows were at hand, from which the Parthians who first encircled them took a fresh supply, then Crassus, seeing no end to this, began to lose heart

>>53892968

Based Plutarch

>>53890902
I have my character throw each of the other party members at the horse archers the best I can. That way they can knock off the archers and hijack their horses so we can make our escape.

>>53891982
> muh testudo
Roman writers continually pointed out how a heavy arrow shower would beat a shield wall.

> And so they crowded into a narrow compass and were shot, and died no easy nor even speedy death. For, in the agonies of convulsive pain, and writhing about the arrows, they would break them off in their wounds, and then in trying to pull out by force the barbed heads which had pierced their veins and sinews, they tore and disfigured themselves the more.

> And when Publius urged them to charge the enemy's mail-clad horsemen, they showed him that their hands were riveted to their shields and their feet nailed through and through to the ground, so that they were helpless either for flight or for self-defence.

>>53892350
Kill the wounded, sell the horses and any valuables the riders had in the next town. Possibly hold hands with the elf against her will.

>>53892968
So, if they weren't in cover and were constantly being arrowed, how did they survive? I thought arrows pierced everything, even bones

>>53892200
>contain the pressure of smokeless powder
you realize you can just use a smaller load right?

>>53892968
Plutarch also talks about divine events like they actually happened, and continually gets the dates wrong for shit.

Crassus was a fuckwit though.
>yes, I am trustworthy native guide, let me lead your army away from water and into the deep desert
>sounds legit, lead on

>>53892968
>Armchair generals on suicide watch
There's a reason these things actually worked and weren't overcome by sweaty nerds eating pizza rolls.

>>53892968
Huh? I thought he also wrote about Parthians switching between shooting at the Romans and charging with heavy cavalry. So when Romans stayed in close formation they were easy target for archers and when they dispersed to avoid missiles they were vulnerable to heavy cavalry.

>>53893081
They didn't. Crassus was captured and killed by pouring molten gold in his throat according to legend.

>>53892622
I hate this meme, the hull should be strong enough to resist small arms designed to kill people.

>>53893001
He's just so fun to read, and teaches you how to be a man. It's /fit/ meets /tg/ meets /his/.

>>53891495
Yes, I hope you enjoy blowing up after one of you twats gets a nice little spark or static. The stable stuff wasn't made till the 1930s.

>>53891078
Tactical advance on the mules.

>>53890902
>>Horseback archers start shooting at your party
>>Your party has no ranged weapons
>>Your party has no magic users
>>You try to close the gap, but the archers keep shooting at you while receding


>Party is all monks who catch and throw back the arrows.
>Horse archers get shot with their own arrows.
>Meanwhile the monks use both their action and bonus action to catch up to them with their inhuman speed.

Those Horse-Archers are so fucked.

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>>53892042
Be still my puritan heart.

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Why would I be in a party without ranged or magic users?

>>53893327
Her face looks like one of those shitty spongebob popsicles.

>>53891085
/thread

>>53890902
Mount up and chase them down. Their tiny horses can't sprint anywhere near as fast as a proper charger.

>make a 100% smashy and 100% of the time melee fighter
>GM gives me a magical greathammer that I can throw at a range of 40 feet

>>53893753
gm is good

>>53892176
Well, he wasn't wrong about you being retarded

>>53893727
*hides into forest*
Your move mister cavalryman.

>>53892136
this is either shit bait or you re retarded anon

>>53894060
*sets woods on fire*
Your move Mr horse archer.

Find cover. Wait for them to make another pass and strike from your hiding spots.

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>>53890902
>>Your party has no ranged weapons
>>Your party has no magic users
What kind of scrub party is this? Let me guess, they don't have rope or lanterns either? Every fucking melee fighter should pack one ranged weapon just in case. There's no fucking reason not to pack a bow or crossbow. None!

>>53891199
>When discussing Starfinder, a sci-fi RPG, and the recent article they put out about the guns, we failed to convince someone to pack even a basic pistol.
I'm not the kind of guy who likes "rock falls, everyone dies" games, but this is the kind of shit you have to teach niggers the hard way.

>>53893022
To be fair, at Carrhae the Romans did manage to persist quite long. The problem was that Roman cavalry was baited into pursuit, but the Roman testuda managed to persist for almost an entire day. If the Parthians didn't have new arrows being brought to them all day, the Roman strategy of waiting until they ran out of arrows would probably have worked and Mesopotamia would be Roman,
and the rise of Islam would probably be prevented much later.

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>>53894060
So be it, Muscovites, for your cowardly ways we will make you our tax collectors among the Rus.

You will bear the Mongol yoke with a servant's smile, and wear it in your hearts for centuries after we have left.

>>53890902
activate my skimmers and wired reflexes, outrun them.
Unless those are magical cyberhorses, the horse archers are fucked.

>>53894649
Do you even know history, anon?

>>53890902
>horses
top fucking kek.
I release moles.
Within a week, every horse had a broken leg.

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>>53890902

psychic powers

>>53891967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CULmGfvYlso

>>53890902
I set up my traps and try to make them fall for it.

Or set up my fish net.

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>>53894833
>Cloth stopped an arrow that pierces bone
>CLOTH
Is this real life?

>>53892297
I don t think you know what millenia means

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>>53891482
>shitty mineral

>>53890902
Hide. Set anklebreaker traps. Stab from shadows. Done.

>>53894927
arrows are super vulnerable to any kind of shearing disruption!
That's why having a billowing, preferably silken, cape renders you almost entirely immune to arrows from behind.

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>>53890902
But my party just met in a tavern... How did the archers fit their horses in a tavern? How many archers? How many horses? Are they double riding to maximize arrow to horse ratio? What kind of bumfuck tavern allows double riding horse archers in at this time of night? Are the overladen horses at risk of hurting themselves as they constantly run into furniture/walls/patrons while my party attempts to close the gap? Wait, why are you assuming my party closes the gap? Can't we just run outside and leave the ill-conceived, random encounter to muck about inside?

>>53893173
This. Also, hollowpoints exist.

>No-one threw a dagger

>>53893173
Why should it be strong enough?
I mean, we are historically SUPER CHEAP on our space programs, and only have the lightest, easiest to break alloys in our space stations.

Hell, some parts are goddamn inflatable.

>>53890902
The same things the Romans did at Carrhae.

Try not to die.

Die a lot.

Kick the GM in the balls for taking my crossbow away, keep kicking them until he gives it back.
Shoot horses in the head. Butcher their riders.

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>>53890956
>Their accuracy will be shit shooting FROM a bumpy moving horse, AT another moving object

Just like the Parthians. Or the Monguls. Or the Samurai. Or the Apache. Or the US Cavalry.

>>53891199
>>53891199
>Then we got into a conversation about people only bringing Axes on a Traveller character.
>not bringing throwing axes

>>53891982
That works against the sort of soldiers the Romans were used to fighting, who used thrown mainly weapons and small bows to weaken troops before closing to melee, or were dropping rocks on you from a wall while you battered it down. It did not work against sustained mass volleys of arrows from composite bows. Too many would slip between shields, hit feet, or get lucky and punch through the metal. Eventually the formation begins to break and more people get hit. It's hard to reform fast enough with dead and wounded in the way. Over time, if you can't close to melee, the formations fall apart and you get massacred.

>>53890902
I call upon the Treants and Ents from the local forest to slaughter them.

>>53892089
Yeah but if you're wearing fifty pounds of metal and only have a sword, that really doesn't matter.

>>53890902
My char in a single move action moves way more, like way more, than a horse run (5x horse speed), I also have pounce, I can also trip a horse with any roll but nat1. I'll be fine

>>53892241
If they were composite bows, those were capable of punching through plate armor. Not on every shot, but mongol archers did fight and kill soldiers in heavy armor at various times.

>>53895354
>If they were composite bows, those were capable of punching through plate armor
Anon, when were composite bows used against plate armor?

>>53895378
They were in my mind.

>>53890902
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE form a square and cry

>>53894694
Yup. Look it up. Moscow was slave to the Mongols for centuries, and was such a good fawning slave that they set the Dukes of Muscovy up as tax farmers to the rest of the Rus (now Russians). Eventually guns drove the Mongols (now Tatars) away, but old cultural habits apparently die hard.

>>53892183
At least we have ONE competent soldier in this thread.

>>53891495
if you can make guncotton (nitrocellulose) you can make nitroglycerin because it's pretty much the same process
nitrocellulose + nitroglycerin + stabilizer = double-base smokeless powder

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>>53894993
>>53895104

Abandon the area, find somewhere more defensible, win through attrition and ambushes on their supply lines.

>>53895527
>Moscow was slave to the Mongols for centuries, and was such a good fawning slave that they set the Dukes of Muscovy up as tax farmers
As you don't know Rus princes had to repeatedly confirm their position by the khan or face consequences (raids and pillage). Princes of Vladimir since Alexander Nevsky tried to pacify the mongols to let the country recover while princes of Tver sought military confrontation. They desired to unite splinter princedoms under them with different approach to this task and manipulated khans in their conflicts.
>Yup. Look it up.
I repeat my question. Do you even know history?

>>53895694
>lead shot
are you TRYING to perforate the inflatables?

>>53891257
>>53891237
It's possible we do have ranged weapons, but in this situation they are of inferior range (javelins/pilae, crude bows, slings with improvised ammo, etc.).

>>53895703

Horseback archers don't have supply lines. They're nomads nigger

I'm a monk. I close the gap with bonus action dashes, and use reactions to catch arrows to fling it back at them. If I don't catch them, they will die by their own arrows.

>>53895820
It's designed to break apart harmlessly when fired in an aircraft; you wouldn't need much adjustment for use in spacecraft and there aren't going to be inflatables holding together pressurized crew compartments.

>>53890902
>your party has no ranged weapons

Speak for yourself.

>>53895885
the inflatables expressly ARE pressurized crew compartments.
The next generation of space flight is going to be SHIT anon.

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>>53890902
>no ranged weapons
No fucking problem. Recede all you like; we've got more horsepower in one vehicle than they have in their entire warband.

>>53895968
You will run out of gas before they run out of grass

>>53895861
Tell that to El Cid.

>>53896049
We don't need to run them out of grass; we just need to break the encirclement and go get our ranged weapons and magic users like we should've done in the first place.

>>53895968
You know, it'd be a hell of a shot, but I think an arrow could penetrate the oil pan or fuel line.

Or just set up a primitive spike line a few miles up the road.

>>53896239
>an arrow could penetrate the oil pan or fuel line
It's not a Humvee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG_4569#Level_2

>>53890902
take cover and force them to come to you or wait til they leave. hopefully we weren't tasked with defending something or specifically capturing them or retrieving something from them. try again later when we've got some kind of premeditated anticavalry tactics ready

Animalism the horses to stop moving. Turn into my animal forms and chase them down. Chase them down on foot. Throw something at them. Shoot my claws at them. Turn to mist and fuck off. I have a ton of options

>>53895181
>US Cavalry

Daily reminder that US Cavalry got its shit kicked in on the regular by Confederate cavalry.

>>53896519
Don't make that child cry

>>53890902
Just get behind cover. It forces them to come close if they want to engage.

>>53895877
You don't have enough reactions nor ki to catch enough arrows and throw them back.

>>53890902
Duck and cover

>>53894927

gambeson are awesome anon

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>>53890902
>form TESTUDO!

>>53894985
holy fuck
capes serve a purpose, aside from looking cool

>>53894587
>the Roman strategy of waiting until they ran out of arrows would probably have worked

This is honestly though a really shitty strategy. They deserved to lose.

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>>53897162

>>53895664
>stabilizer

That is?

>>53890902
>be monk
>catch arrow
>pass to barbarian
>barbarian throw good

>the horse can not run; if you disable it's legs

>>53890902

Just sit behind cover/shield wall.
Horse archers are not very good at killing, especially against well protected opponents.
Eventually they just run out of ammo.
That's what people did in real life.

>>53896519
well yeah what would you expect from a bunch of city slickers fighting horsefucking hicks. the rednecks knew their livestock if literally nothing else.

>>53897251
>That's what people did in real life.
Examples?

>>53897284
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_fort

>>53890902
Take cover and don't follow, idiot. Eventually they recede out of their effective range.

>>53897315
Only successful example of this tactic against nomads was by Chinese in 119 BC according to your source

>>53897190
about 5% petroleum jelly by weight

>>53897251
>>53897315
You realize most successful examples had defenders who could shoot back, right?

>>53897403

>i literally refused to read the page

Not my problem.

>>53897478

You realize most of the time, horse archers fight as a skirmishing or scout force ahead of a main army, and don't fight entirely unsupported, right?

>>53897488
Not my problem you didn't know what it contains. It has 0 cases of 'horse archers', mentions 'nomads' 2 times and 1 mention of 'mongols'. You basically don't know what source you posted.

>>53897520

>he hit ctrl+f instead of reading
lmao, thanks for letting me know in advance I can safely ignore anything else you say

>>53897546
Care to read your Wikipedia pages next time, anon

>>53897505
Outside the scope of the question. In this thread it's you and your party against horse archers; nothing else.

>>53897505
>don't fight entirely unsupported
Good thing your party is unsupported either

>>53897572

Can you really not follow such a simple argument?

>just sit behind cover until they run out of ammo
>>but in real life that usually didnt work!
>in real life mounted archers were just a skirmishing force, and had others to actually close in and attack, therefore sitting defensively didn't usually work, because you would be outmaneuvered by their regular forces, or outflanked by their cav
>>but that's got nothing to do with the question!!

Try to keep up.

>>53891029
>'Let an enemy shoot me until he has no ammo' is not a strategy.
It worked for Stalin.

>>53897629

And?
I can tell by your grammar that you don't have a completed thought there.
Think harder and try again.

>>53897677
Don't be so salty, anon

>>53897694

Come up with an argument, instead of restating facts in the OP, and I'll discuss it with you.
Otherwise, you're just being an annoying retard.

>>53890902
What party? My current party? Unless they have bullshit magic horses and bullshit magic bows they won't be even able to beat my char without magic items.

>>53897707
Anon please, you are crashing salt markets

>>53897657
You don't have enough wagons.

>>53897733

Does me being mad mean that you win, or make you feel good?
Alright dude, I'm super mad/salty. You really got me. Boy, I'm pissed!

>>53891257
I'm a GM and my party had this situation. Which means that the first encounter that they couldn't stand still next to the enemy and melee attack them, they almost died from.

I got a lot of passive-aggressive comments from half the party, but they've learned their lesson and one of them has picked up a bow and a token amount of arrows (Literally, like, five) and I think the rest are planning on doing it when they get money.

>>53897757
Try to stay on topic instead of making personal attacks next time, anon

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>>53897803

Ha

>>53890924
Made me laugh. /thread for me.

>>53897833
Good boy

>>53897753

You can use shields and hide behind trees and shit.
Also
>enough wagons
How big is this fucking party?

>>53897877
>hide behind trees
>in a wagon
That's fucking impressive

>>53891029
>'Let an enemy shoot me until he has no ammo' is not a strategy.
Says you

>>53897897

(*^_^)

>>53897915
Fuck off from 4chan, kid

Small force? Retreat somewhere the horses cannot trod easily. If no such place exists, split up with a pre-arranged spot to regroup with the survivors.

Large Force? Use a couple of men as shields, preferably with shields, to cover the rest as they dig holes and trenches. Rest using the holes/trenches, then make a new plan based on enemy tactics.

>>53891967
Short bows have almost no penetration, these for mounted archers have even less.

>>53897877
It only works as a tactic if you're able to shoot back because then the enemy can't close in and destroy you. If you can't, then the only way of stopping them from riding up and turning you into a pincushion is physically, completely surrounding yourself and hoping they don't have anything to set fires with.

>>53893022
But then in the first crusade a shield wall was able to hold out for a day allowing reinforcements to come. Resulting in a crusader victory

>>53890902
>>Horseback archers start shooting at your party

Get everyone inside the house and call the cops.

>>53894833
Thread over

>>53890902

Get into thick terrain if they keep coming after me all sloppy like double back and plan an ambush.

>>53892968
Smash one section of the encirclement on the first moonless night, and just walk your way through it until you get enough the route or youre close enough to dense terrain to break it off and flee into it.

That or die.

>>53901944
>until you get enough to route

>>53895772
Not that guy but I do enjoy watching pseudo meme historians getting btfo. Thanks Anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE
this is what happens
you die

>>53891029
>'Let an enemy shoot me until he has no ammo' is not a strategy.
It worked alright for the Chinese in Korea.

>>53896519
Daily reminder the union cavalry did it's fucking job, as opposed to galavanting around to get headlines for Stuart, which helps set the stage for the traitors defeat at Gettysburg. I'll take good soldiers over good fighters any day

>>53894833
They didnt even use a real arrow head on the linen lmao. A broadhead would cut that like butter. What a bunch of cunts.

>>53897666
To be fair, Stalin's strategy was more
>Let them shoot everyone else until they run out of bullets
And whole it worked for Stalin, it really sucked for everyone else

>>53902113
I'd be interested to learn what systems allow the country of China as a PC options.

>>53902254
This was not the case and was pure German propaganda that was convenient for the Allies to accept as fact after the war.

>>53890902
Go inside the inn. Drink and laugh. Eventually they will run out of arrows or come inside.

Horseback archers can't fire arrow, so all good until they get some infantry or siege troops up there.

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>>53890902
Put spikes into the ground, so they he can't go in a circle around us. When he heads into the funnel we make, charge him, so he can't escape.

pic related took 100000 hours in MS paint

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>>53904236
It's like you don't even know how the horsey moves.

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>>53904322
pssh. nothin personelle kid

>>53893153
False. Crassus died in a failed parley with Parthians, and his lifeless head had molten gold poured in his mouth (symbolic of his greed).
You're thinking of Mongol "crowning"....