Skirmishers with Powerbow

[RogerW]

Any thoughts on Powerbow for skirmishing infantry?

For example, Welsh archers post 1200 are armed with longbow, yet the same chaps skirmishing are only considered bow when they have the same weapon.

Volume of arrows may be an argument but 9 base SuG vs 6 base TuG is the same number of figures and perhaps the same volume of arrows

Would be happy with either powerbow or skilled bow classification, always niggled me that Cretan archers are considered more dangerous that the equivalent troops equipped with a longbow.

Would even be happy with the option of unskilled powerbow just to gain the range

[badhabum]

Once again the dream of the powerbow 

To me it was less effective than people think . It helped win very few battles .

[RogerW]

We I am certain a longbow was more effective than a earlier bow.

True that archery, both IRL and MeG rarely wins battles on its own

[badhabum]

The problem with all archery and similar tests is that it cannot really take into account the stress, noise, moving target and armour that really deflected the arrows because of mouvement and so on . But what is a sure fact is that "clouds" of arrows did have an impact, armoured knight or not  but I am happy as it is now because otherwise it would be an endless discussion .