Crossbowmen in the Hyborean Age...
Jun 5, 2017 9:36:59 GMT -5
Post by thorgrim on Jun 5, 2017 9:36:59 GMT -5
In the Hyborean world, certain Conan stories include crossbows...
But such weasponry is definitely out of flavor to the majority of the stories and certainly in keeping with the equipment of the archers of the royal army of the Hyborean age.
Neither, as monolith is offered to a box of crossbowmen, know that they are the light crossbowmen of the army of the kingdom of Nemedia*, which is a crossbowmen in the Hyborean World...
Do you know of other royal armies of the hyborean age who used crossbowmen?
* "The king and his allies moved westward, at the head of fifty thousand men, knights in shining armor, their pennons streaming above their helmets, pikemen in steel caps and brigandines, crossbowmen in leather jerkins.They crossed the border, took a frontier castle and burned three mountain village, and then,in the valley of the Valkia,ten miles west of the boundary line,they met the host of Conan, king of Aquilonia "forty-five thousand knights, archers and men at arms, the flower of Aquilonian strenght and chivalry."
ยป
Robert E. Howard - The Hour of the Dragon
Cheers
Thorgrim
But such weasponry is definitely out of flavor to the majority of the stories and certainly in keeping with the equipment of the archers of the royal army of the Hyborean age.
Neither, as monolith is offered to a box of crossbowmen, know that they are the light crossbowmen of the army of the kingdom of Nemedia*, which is a crossbowmen in the Hyborean World...
Do you know of other royal armies of the hyborean age who used crossbowmen?
* "The king and his allies moved westward, at the head of fifty thousand men, knights in shining armor, their pennons streaming above their helmets, pikemen in steel caps and brigandines, crossbowmen in leather jerkins.They crossed the border, took a frontier castle and burned three mountain village, and then,in the valley of the Valkia,ten miles west of the boundary line,they met the host of Conan, king of Aquilonia "forty-five thousand knights, archers and men at arms, the flower of Aquilonian strenght and chivalry."
ยป
Robert E. Howard - The Hour of the Dragon
Cheers
Thorgrim