07-18-2005, 01:41 AM
Dan while were on the subject, did you see "Battlefield detectives, the battle of Agincourt" They did a bit on bodkin arrows and long bows coming up with the results that the arrow would have had 63 joules of energy and that they would not have penetrated the French armour of the day. They summized that the amount of English archers had more to do with there cost than there effectivness.
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Maya Angelou