Players in Age of Empires 4 can win solely by destroying opposing landmarks and the Town Center. As a result, performing a rush early in the game with the correct civilization is highly successful. In ...
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What ended the age of the longbow

For over a century, the English longbow dominated battlefields. At Formigny, that dominance ended. This video explains how artillery and tactics finally neutralized England’s greatest weapon.
The medieval English longbow first came to prominence during the Hundred Years War. In 1346, English forces used it to devastating effect to cut down a superior French army. The Art of Video Games ...
Jamie McDonald, of Powell River, B.C. has been making longbows in the traditional style for the past nine years. McDonald uses Pacific yew trees to construct his bows, and has gained a reputation as ...
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Yesterday, I wrote about the tremendous success of the English yeoman longbow archers and how they successfully defeated French cavalry time and again during the Hundred Years War (see: “What Can the ...