User blog comment:El Alamein/Chu-Ko-Nu vs. Persian Archer/@comment-181289-20120616000028

I gotta give this to the Persians.

Up Close the Sagaris is in my opinion, superior to the Jian, While the Jian is a quick stabbing weapon and a decent slashing weapon, it really isn't robust enough to penatrate the Persian's armor. The Sagaris can punch threw the Bronze helemt of the Chinese archer, even if it doesn't it will send enough energy into the helmet the fracture the skull.

At Long, the Persians tried and True bow will trump the repeating cross bow. The very Nature of the repating cross-bow means the user basically shoot in large volumes, and frankly, it's volmes of shots really don't make up for it's significanlly shorter range and will be less affective aginist the Persian armor. The Persain Bow has a longer range and can be shot more accuratly, and the lighter armor of the Chinese archer will be far more likly to fail to protect him in combat.