Talk:Attica/@comment-112.200.170.40-20140415090846/@comment-198.82.213.225-20140416202059

^ Jumping on what was said above, crossbows were much more powerful than a normal bow, especially the Middle-Age European "version". If I am correct, they required the user to stand the crossbow on a metal footloop located on the crossbow's "head" from there, the user would place a bolt on the string and then pull the string up to the cocking position with both hands, thus requiring much more force to "reload" than a bow. Bows do/did not require this. Crossbows (again I am only talking about Middle-Age Europe, I am not sure of the Far East's "version") could pierce a knight's armor which were made to stop, among other things, arrows from long bows.