Why Europeans had such hate boners for projectile weaponry? Greeks were butthurt about peltasts as if throwing javelins was the same as standing far in the back and shooting arrows and there is nothing wrong with that either it's not like the archers fucking assasinate them in their sleep.
Why Europeans thought ranged weapons were dishonorable but asians were cool with it? Also if they were so concerned about muh honorable melee combat why they used polearms which existed solely to keep the enemy far away? Pre gunpowder era people were seriously daft hypocrites.
OP is actually crazy retarded.
>>1349041
Nice rebutal dumb cunt.
#notalleuropeans
Just the knights, and then only when they were fighting with other knights. Arrows and crossbows were the weapons of poor, peaceful peasants with weak bodies and spirit and no knowledge of actual chivalrous combat, who fought for their lives and not for honor. But if it was peasants you were fighting, then it was perfectly fine to use their dishonoravle weapons against them.
>>1349006
it had nothing to do with honour you fucking nonce. First of all, you should specify western europe, because in eastern europe they adopted a lot of mongol and tatar fighting methods and used a lot of missile weapons. They just had a different fighting style that was centred around heavily armed cavalry, and later on in the middle ages it shifted more towards missile and infantry. It wasn't inferior, just a different style of warfare. For example, heavily armed knights destroyed nomadic horse archers in many battles during the crusades, and also in many battles they lost to horse archers
>>1349090
>le peasants used crossbows xDD
kill yourself
>>1349138
>eastern europe
>adapting mongol fighting methods
woah does your fairy tale have dragons?
>>1349150
>Hi im anon and i have no fucking idea what a cossack is
>>1349090
>chivalrous combat
>hostage warfare due to a lack of economic activity in Europe
pick one
>What are English longbows
>What are Muskets and Rifles
>>1350712
>cossacks represent eastern europe as a whole
kill yourself
So are trying to get the catalog full of crossbowmen or what?
>>1349006
Probably nobles didn't want a arrow in their dick so they invented "Projectile weapons are dishonorable hurr durr." shit.
>>1349006
It is a Roman habit ,they believe that only cowards use bows and arrows because it is not fair killing a man without facing him, real men need to fight with melee weapons. But during the middle ages especially in England it becomes more noble.
>>1350723
>hostage warfare
Every time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YLb7jrtlXU#t=05m39s
>>1349006
Germans really liked single combat so they could obtain honor.
Its part of the reason they didn't have the formation fighting skills the Romans had.
