User blog comment:MilenHD/Hashashin vs Mohawk Warrior/@comment-3189283-20160817124624/@comment-3189283-20160818101347

They may have used archery during two famous sieges (in which the one against Hulagu Khan was a crushing defeat and ended in the destruction of the entire sect by the way so ahrdly an excellent defence as you claim) but the Hashashins barely used it in their actual assassinations, they went up close and personal to kill their targets, often in broad daylight in public places, to act as a warning.