Timeline for Why did they shoot with burning arrows during the fight for Castle Black?
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 0:31 | comment | added | Odin1806 | @supercat I mentioned in my answer most of what you mention in your comment; minus the Hollywood invention bit of course. To think that people did not find a way to use an arrow to throw fire at someone or something they don't like is ridiculous. Clearly LindyBeige found a way to do it today. There are documented accounts of flaming arrows. Even your LindyBeige stated that flaming arrows could be used for the exact reasons I stated in my answer. Did you read my answer? | |
| Jul 18, 2017 at 19:55 | comment | added | supercat | According to youTube poster LindyBeige, flaming arrows are essentially a Hollywood invention. Movie arrows are fired at slow speeds so as to be readily visible to the audience. Constructing a flaming arrow that will stay lit when fired at Hollywood speed isn't hard, but making one that will stay lit when fired fast enough to achieve decent range is much harder. | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 16:30 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | Robin Hood, Spoiler alert: I live where he allegedly lived... | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 16:29 | comment | added | Odin1806 | haha, but personal success is not important for an archer. They value group effort. When was the last time you heard of a famous archer really?! It's all about the knights, no one ever cared to remember the archers... | |
| Mar 26, 2017 at 8:58 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | Easier to see the general fall of the arrows, much harder to find your own | |
| Mar 26, 2017 at 1:58 | comment | added | Odin1806 | True but en masse I would expect them to be much easier to see. | |
| Mar 21, 2017 at 12:57 | comment | added | TheLethalCarrot♦ | I'd like to challenge the point that "Shooting arrows during the day it fairly simple to see where they are landing". I've done quite a bit of archery and it is a massive pain in the arse to trace your own arrow, especially whilst aiming so you can effectively hit your target. | |
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| Mar 19, 2017 at 19:26 | history | answered | Odin1806 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |