User blog comment:123chaseyoung/Knights Hospitaller vs Sohei Monks/@comment-422690-20171101042159/@comment-17814994-20171102003731

There are far more accounts of a yabusame being used on horseback than a steel crannequin crossbow (just one google search did that). Hence why i wanted to know how in the hell does a crossbow outdoes a bow on horseback. I dont get how a weapon where you need another guy to reload is better than a wealon you can reload yourself on hirseback. Leo didnt really convince me.

And i also dont get how you thought i was assuming or generalizing. Yeah the whole infantry can help mounted archers reload thing is sketchy, but it was Leo who said it and i was doubtful on how it is more effective.

But for many of what i said, those were my own knowl dge about ctossbows on horseback and were not assumptions. I also wasnt assuming when i said that crossbows where one shot weapon on horseback:

“When the battle was fully engaged, they would charge at the enemy flank, shoot a single devastating volley at point-blank range and then attack the enemy with swords, without reloading“ -Wikipedia with actual citations

Even at the advent of the goat’s lever and crannequin, reloaidng and utilizing a heavy crossbow is still more dofficul than a yumi.