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Originally Posted by BraselC5048
I'm going through the Deadly Spring spreadsheet, and I'm wondering what a typical ST for a typical war bow would be. I wondering about both for highly trained archers, and for average training archers. Apparently it's possible to produce really good reflex bows, and I'm wondering what ST I should use.
Probably a lower ST one for soldiers only parts of who's training is archery, and higher ST one for troops who're specialized, experience archers?
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This is a matter of technical jargon, but when they talk about english warbows, they usually mean "stronger than 100lbs."
Reconstructions to actual dimensions for the bows recovered from the sunken vessel Mary Rose showed draw strengths for those (hundreds of) bows varied from about 120-185 lbs.
Very strong Mongol horn bows could be 160# draw. I recall most japanese bows were less - 50-100lbs, but I don't have a great source for that in history.