For those of you who have never fought Kristianos, mixed weaponry means that thunder-stick shooters, crossbowmen, and pole-ax spearmen provide protection for each other, like a woven defense. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)
The Merbreth was a dozen paces away when Juko issued the command for the crossbowmen to fire. ❋ Ricardo Federico (2011)
Trebuchets as field artillery – so beloved of Medieval Total War – would be utterly rubbish, because your army would have to move at their pace, with all sorts of strategic implications, and because it would be more cost effective to hire more slingers or crossbowmen. ❋ Zornhau (2007)
The Genoese were particularly noted as crossbowmen. ❋ Carla (2009)
The rise of professional or semi-professional soldiers also goes with the late medieval trend toward 'combined arms,' with mutually supporting units of pikemen long- or crossbowmen, lancers, sword & buckler guys, and so forth. ❋ Carla (2009)
Men were assigned to do the digging, with crossbowmen and bowmen to defend them on all sides. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My vagina which is guarded and protected by moats and drawbridges, my sexuality which is imprisoned behind unmoving unforgiving blocks of stone, my heart of hearts which is defended by crossbowmen lurking just out of sight behind the ramparts. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Telmarines did as well, some of theirs were self-inflicted by Miraz ordering the crossbowmen to fire while his own men were still in the battle. ❋ John Loyd (2008)
As a twenty-four-year-old in 1289, he fought in the battle of Campaldino and the siege of Carpona, in which armed rabble, loosely organized infantrymen, knights, and mounted lancers hacked away at one another while crossbowmen contributed to the carnage from the flanks. ❋ Strobe Talbott (2008)
The archers and crossbowmen stood in front of the army. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
The story may be quickly told, but first something about the opposing armies, the Norman army numbered upwards of 8500. it was composed of about 2000 cavalry, knights with lances, 4500 heavy infantry, somewhat armored carrying spears and battle axes, and 2000 light infantry consisting of archers, crossbowmen and slingers. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)
Then one of the crossbowmen stepped forward and fired from ten meters. ❋ DAFYDD AB HUGH (2008)
I was hoping to find something in the Second Lateran Council 1139 AD since it has all sorts of wackiness in it, like forbidding the use of archers and crossbowmen against fellow Christians and fighting between sunset Wednesday and sunrise Monday. ❋ James Maliszewski (2008)
I haven't heard of horse archers anywhere in the west either - crossbowmen, yes, and the medieval longbow archer English and Welsh, I believe. ❋ Carla (2008)
Describing the fate of the crossbowmen at the hands of English, he wrote: "The English archers took one pace forward and poured all their arrows on the Genoese crossbowmen so thickly and evenly they fell like snow." ❋ Unknown (2007)
