Jörg Sprave is back with a new version of his repeating bow

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I don’t know about property values, but it could make parties a lot more fun.

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Tests with medieval armor and medieval crossbows have shown that wasn’t a thing. To be fair, it wasn’t a thing with longbows, either. Bows (long- or cross-) were effective at taking down knights’ horses, to eliminate their main advantage, mobility. Once on the ground, knights were still formidable due to armor and training, but could be picked at from a distance and/or toppled by polearms. A knight off his feet was a dead knight, generally speaking.

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I’ll have to watch later, but IIRC the Chinese had a repeating crossbow.

Here - it is…

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Glad I’m not the only one.

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