I picked up Mike Loades' new book War Bows after it was recently reviewed by Matt Easton on his Youtube channel scholagladiatoria. Easton remarked that the book, a four-part survey of the English longbow, crossbow, composite bow and Japanese Yumi, is based on the latest scholarship. I find the book a mixed bag. To some … Continue reading ‘War Bows’ by Mike Loades

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTd_0FRAwOQ   Lindy proposes several different possible compositions of fire arrows, and why he believes they wouldn't work. I don't know how common fire arrows might have been in the classical period or middle ages, or how they would have been constructed. Fortunately however we do have a recipe for fire arrows from 1628, … Continue reading Lindybeige: Fire Arrows