SonicBlade
Clubman
posted 01-05-15 04:26 PM ET (US)
Here's a question: Did the Greeks used this medieval archer called an arbalest?
Suppiluliuma
AoEH Seraph
posted 01-09-15 01:15 PM
ET (US)
4 / 6
Also the name of the unit should be 'Arbalest man' lol.
Arbalest refers only to the weapon. But yes if you talk about Middle Age Greece, it was part of the Eastern Roman/Byzantine empire by then, so if the Byzantines used it (I am not sure if they did, but sounds possible) by extension the Greeks did as well.
SonicBlade
Clubman
posted 01-14-15 06:52 PM
ET (US)
5 / 6
Or better yet, they can be called "Arbalist" as it would make much more sense. However, maybe someone can make a mod for AOE2 that renames the Arbalest unit from "Arbalest" to "Arbalist". That would be nice.
Leonaidis
Clubman
posted 12-09-17 05:44 AM
ET (US)
6 / 6
I don't believe the Greeks used an arbalest. The technology for manufacturing the steel "bow" dates to the middle ages. You need a rather high grade of steel to make the steel bow. The Greeks had iron, steel is iron with carbon mixed into the molecular lattice which creates the "steel". This important "discovery/development" was probably made much later than the time frame of the Greeks in AOE.