User blog comment:Pygmy Hippo 2/Oliver Cromwell vs. Takeda Shingen/@comment-17814994-20190408144602/@comment-27358240-20190409152120

First of all, thank you for your serious answer and for not considering me a simple ranting autistic weeb. Please note that anything I say is not meant to attack or offend you, I simply want to rectify a wrong point.

I've heard of Muashi's quote indeed. However, he states that the weapon's effectiveness drops frim 40 yards onwards but that is, considering Musashi's military career was during the late Sengoku and early Edo, very likely against armoured enemies. Any bow will have difficulty punching through armor beyond 40 yards away, especially against cuirass type armor that was most common at that time. Another point is that he states that the bow is unsatisfactory in a siege, which I believe is the same for pretty much any bow. If you have walls and ramparts in front of you, you're going to have difficulties shooting at an enemy.