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What are the types of arrow for crossbows and longbows used in Medieval period?
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The first simple type is the Broadhead, a hunting arrow that was triangular/delta shaped and thus was barbed and caused great injuries to unarmoured opponents during the shot and when it was being removed as well. Broadheads were able to pierce some types of simple armour, but were ineffective against a lot of stronger armours. These were commonly used for hunting.
The second is called the Bodkin, this was an elongated pyramid shape, and was designed specifically for penetrating armour. They were able to pierce any armour with a decent war bow up to chainmail, but anything stronger than that would cause difficulty for Bodkin heads at longer range. Bodkin arrows were banned in any tournament, as it was the medieval equivalent to bringing armour piercing bullets to a simple shooting range.
The third was the fire head, just pitch soaked cloth wrapped around the shaft on top of a normal arrowhead for slight penetration, and to retain the correct forward weight needed. These were not used for killing directly, but were used to ignite flammable objects such as thatch, or as intimidation.
There were many other head types as well, but with much more specialist purposes, such as Archery fishing.
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