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Originally Posted by EtVous
How about the fact that the nobles did not like the fact that anyone could damage their precious/expensive to maintain and train knights.
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Longbows are not anti-tank weapons. They're not harmless to armored knights but they're not that big a threat.
Also, if you're banning anti-knight weapons you'd need to start with spears.
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Originally Posted by EtVous
The long bow was a late comer and required a lot of training, this means expenses, poor people need to work for a living, not spend their time training for an edge they did not need.
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All bows required a lot of training. And longbows are in no wise a late-arriving technology.