Armor versus archery

[Cerco 21]

Part of the issue is that arrows tend to be fairly low energy projectiles, even compared to weapons back then. (...)

This is not an absolute truth. For example as we demonstrate on our web site a ballista bolt has almost twice as much impact energy than a .38 bullet at 60m

We can compute impact energy with ease, and from there you need to compute penetration. And arrow section is much smaller than sword or spear tip section, so there is more pressure.

As with everything armor was effective, arrows were effective, but no armor and no weapon "dominated" the battlefield in such a way that you could say they "ruled".

And we can NEVER remove weapons and armor from context, being weather, battlefield position, economic leverage etc. etc.

Nonetheless testing is fun and a lot of people do it. The results are only valid however for the very restrictive testing conditions.