Sling Range - The Verdict

THERE is little to add to this - slingers were not routinely outranged by archers in biblical-era battles, as I discussed here and here.

Accordingly, in future battles fought under Neil Thomas's biblical rules from Ancient & Medieval Wargaming, I will keep the range of slings and bows on foot the same, ie 24cm.

However I am less sure that the range of mounted bows should be as short as 16cm, which means foot bows receive a 50% bonus.

This seems too much, and I am strongly leaning towards increasing mounted-bow range to 20cm.

For most battles this would only be used by charioteers, who would still be at a disadvantage range-wise compared with foot archers, but not so extremely.

Two bands of slingers