Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

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This week we’re looking at a specific visual motif common in TV and film: the arrow volley. You know the scene: the general readies his archers, he orders them to ‘draw!’ and then…

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