Talk:Peasant Bowmen/@comment-35381510-20190601181914/@comment-35870715-20191022224022

You are correct, and the person below you is wrong. English Longbowmen companies were expensive to train and field, and absolutely deadly to cavalry with time to prepare, as was proven time and again in the hundred years war. The only reason the Battle of Patay went so well for the French was because the heavy cavalry managed to find the (inexperienced) bowmen before they had finished setting up.

Yes, longbows can pierce plate. Just not the expensive Milanese plate that came later in the war (and most knights wouldn't be able to afford anyway)

In actuality, plate suits being so expensive meant that comparatively few nobles would be so protected.