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• An ordinary draw weight bow say 50 lb or so will kill an animal or an unarmoured man; a bodkin point with the same can kill a man in mail; but when plate armour appears on the scene you need a much higher draw weight bow to penetrate it, and consequently more powerful bows and the archers to go with them are needed. Bowmen in medieval Wales
• Strong Scottish melee unit armed with sword and shield and wearing plate armour.
• Elite and experienced knights protected by plate armour, barding and armed with lances and swords.
• The crossbow was really the first hand-held weapon that could be used by an untrained soldier to injure or kill a knight in plate armour.
• Wielding the billhook allows Heavy Billmen to hack, stab and chop if needed and being encased in anything from half to three quarter plate armour means they can shrug off considerable damage.
• They can be disposed of easily, whilst their weapons stand little chance of piercing the adventurer's plate armour.
• There will be an assumed non-specific setting type, the principal assumption being that magic is hidden from the common folk and that technology is limited to full plate armour and arbalests (no firearms), other assumptions being that there is a spectral realm, a ghost realm and probably a seelie realm and an unseelie realm (rather than a single fey realm). TheRPGSite
• Well equipped with good plate armour and lances these elite cavalry are arguably the ultimate knights.
• His heavy plate armour clanked as he waved his shield arm and brandished a huge spiked mace.
• At close range firearms would pierce even plate armour, which led to the retirement of plate armour from the field (obsolete). Firearms for Pathfinder « Geek Related