I'm a longbow person because I value quantity over quality.

  • Dessa [she/her]
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    4 days ago

    Yumis deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that. I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine yumi in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even pierce slabs of solid steel with my yumi.

    Japanese bowyers spend years working on a single yumi and layer it with bamboo up to a million times to produce the finest bows known to mankind.

    Yumis are thrice as powerful as European lobgbows and thrice as accurate for that matter too. Anything a longbow can shoot through, a yumi can shoot through better. I'm pretty sure a yumi could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple draw and release.

    Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their yumi of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the yumi first because their killing power was feared and respected.

    So what am I saying? yumis are simply the best bow that the world has ever seen. This is a fact and you can't deny it.