The Gaming Den

Thanks for the link Frank, that has made reading this thread make a lot more sense. Funny it's almost like someone turned the light on and I suddenly realized that I was sitting in the dark. It reminded me just how much I despise rhetoric or any other technique for manipulating a debate to steer it ...

Zinegata wrote:[
The English Army at Agincourt was tired, starving, and suffering badly from disease.

And yet still somehow able to fire bows with up to a 180lb draw.

Until they ran out of arrows.

I wonder if that had something to do with years/decades of training improving their physical condition?

You have missed my point, again.

I'm not one to come on the internet and spout off opinions about something I know nothing about.

My point was that he was contesting K's example by agreeing with K's premise.

I honestly don't care whether skill is more important than physical conditioning.

So crizh; If you took a hundred modern Olympic athletes and a hundred Roman legionaries and gave them whatever ancient weapons they want do you think the Olympians would win? If not how much training do you think they'd need? I haven't the faintest idea, what does that have to do with what I said a...

OK, first post, finally registered 'cos this is starting to amuse me. Zinegata. As I understand it K's point is that physical conditioning is more important in combat than skill. He has illustrated this point by claiming he could train a child to put ten arrows a minute down range in a controlled fa...