Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32865299-20171004210031/@comment-28343369-20171104120123

Kickratgames wrote: Plate armour has some of the same set backs as bullet proof vests: It cannot cover everything, the force of the blow would still do a lot of damage while gamesbons took most of this force a bit still remains, and finally repeatedly hitting a spot will in fact do damage,

By picking up speed and power I do not mean propulsion: while broadheads are heavy slowing the arrow and bringing it down, with a bodkins virtual non-excistent weight this does not happen. This also solves the problem of range. My point still remains: Bodkin arrows might be able to go faster, over a longer period of time, but it still isn't enough to pierce armour efficiently. It doesn't have as much power as a broadhead arrow would. Let's do some math, shall we? Force equals mass times acceleration. You claim that bodkin arrows are faster, so I'll say that the bodkins will go twice as fast. You also say that bodkin arrows are much lighter thatn broadheads, so I'll make them half as heavy as the broadheads. They wind up with the same aount of force, only the bodkin concentrates it more. So no, the bodkin arrow does not have more power, it just concentrates it better. Also, as said by good'ol Newton, an object in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. That is why the arrow will always lose force and energy as it flies, via air friction. Plate is too thick for any bodkin to be able to pierce it at a range of greater than several yards.

There is even a historical account of bodkin arrows not working against plate, The Battle of Poitiers. The arrows of the English longbowmen were "initially ineffective against the French knights, as they enjoyed the protection of steel plate armour..."