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>Own a repeating crossbow for home defence, since that's what the Emperors intended.
>Four barbarians break into my Siheyuan(四合院).
>"What the devil?" As I grab my hanfu(漢服) and Chu-ko-nu(諸葛弩).
>The first bolt hits right through the neck of the first man, he chokes on the spot.
>The second bolt misses entirely because it has no sight and nails the neighbours' panda.
>I have to resort to the Hwacha(火車) mounted on the top of the stairs loaded with rocket arrows,
>"再见伙计们!" the rocket arrows shred two men in the blast, the screams and extra arrows set off fire beacon towers.
>For the last one, I attach my sword to my crossbow and charge the last man.
>He bleeds out waiting on the guards to arrive since stab wounds are impossible to stitch up.
>Just as the Emperors intended.
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>>64180821
Where do all Chinese women with big tits go? Did their Emperors kill them all or something?
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>>64180837
eaten during sieges
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>>64180843
I don't blame them.
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>>64180821
The guards arrive and take OP in custody because the intruders were Mongols and it's the Ming Dinasty.
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>>64180821
based
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>>64180821
That shit was made for women, primarily as home defense, due to how ridiculously weak they were.
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>>64180821
Lol
>What the devil
More like "Tu madre"
>火車
This means "train" now though
>再见
Theoretically accurate but it's kinda like "auf wiedersehen" in that it means "See ya again!"
>伙计
Lol this means "employee" now
>Emperors
Were totalitarian grabbers
Part of the reason martial arts developed (and was suppressed) was in rebellion against the ruling authorities

>>64180837
>Where do all Chinese women with big tits go?
They're from way up Norf, and there aren't many of them

You have to understand that big tits are something of a cold weather adaptation for humans. Or perhaps more accurately, smaller tits are more common in warmer climates. Something to do with cooling the body, and winter fat reserves perhaps, plus better nutrition (average Asian tit sizes now resemble early 20th century European because of improving nutrition)
And historically not only is China poor, the most populous parts of China are all at the same latitude as fucking Georgia, and below. Hence most chinese girls would be better adapted to warm weather, ie have slimmer bodies and smaller tits.
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>>64180920
>Georgia
The state not the country
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>>64180916
Men used them as well. It's a weapon that was best used in home defence and sieges.
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>>64180821
Heh. The gweilo couldn't have possibly replicated such an advanced piece of weaponry, as one can observe from their crossbows.
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>>64180821
Lmao
In the background an angry Chinese Legalist would approach because you have a 15 bolt magazine and you sawed down the hip-brace.
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>>64180821
>漢服 and not 汉服

-10 social credit score, please refrain from using counter revolutionary characters.
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>>64180821
>Snipes you with 300lbs crossbow with ironsights
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>>64183552
>300lbs
Handheld crossbows didn't get to that level until Europeans started making them with steel.
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>>64183610
The Chinese crossbows were literally warbows mounted onto a stock, and since people can deadlift more weight, they developed 300lbs bows specifically for their crossbows.
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>>64183631
>they developed 300lbs bows specifically for their crossbows.
implessive, may i see it?
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>>64183552
>make some scratches on the trigger
>unwieldy inaccurate piece of shit magically transforms into sniper wonder weapon
>countless chinkshills pretend china hasn't been dominated by foreign invaders for all of its history
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>>64183631
Without a more complex mechanism you still have to physically pull back 300 pounds to cock it.
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>>64183854
Deadlifting 300 pounds is quite normal for a fit young adult male who spends every day outside doing heavy activities and eats well.
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>>64183881
Anon we are talking about the historical Imperial Chinese army.
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>>64183631
ah yes, a little known fact is that superior chinese woodworking technology allowed them to create what europeans could only achieve using steel bows
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>>64183631
Chinese Warbows were around 100 pounds, which is decent but not 300. There's some that get into the low to mid 200s but were seen as basically the extreme minority.
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>>64180843
IMAGINE
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>>64183916
>There's some that get into the low to mid 200s
there's none, the world record bow weight is 200lbs.
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>>64184013
There are Chinese bows documented at up to 240 pounds but there's no physical remains of one.
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>>64184032
These are either a complete fabrication or filed artillery. Such a bow would be physically impossible for a human to draw.
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>>64183552
>>64183610
>>64183631
>>64183916
>>64184013
I've seen theories that the supposedly absurd high draw Chinese longbows were drawn with the entire body while lying flat, or affixed to a post and loaded by two or three men.
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>>64184043
https://youtu.be/dVIRGKOc8yI?si=VCL0g8zMeJdq91AE
Technically its possible to make one that strong but it requires quite advanced knowledge of wood laminating and as you said its ridiculous to pull back.
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>>64184055
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N27R-lyyLB8
This vid actually makes the 300 pound claim make more sense, as its a bow that was cocked on the ground like >>64184046 says. These aren't self defense crossbows like some of the pics showing 50-100lb bows but war crossbows.
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>>64184043
>Such a bow would be physically impossible for a human to draw.
Maybe for a willow armed faggot like you, anon.
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>>64184075
I'm sure there are millions of chinks that can prove their warrior genes by beating the world record any day now, they just choose not to, for ... reasons.
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>>64184070
>has to tie the bow to his feet and push down with his legs extended rather than the purported deadlift technique they always deflect to
>this somehow proves that chink crossbows with even more outlandish claimed draw weights aren't a complete fabrication that topped out at 120lbs, same as their warbows
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>>64183909
European steel bows were actually terrible. Even compared to their own wood bows.
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>>64184075
Oh sure i am totally going to believe 4 ft tall scrawny manlets eating a fistful of rice every day could totally pull twice their weight not once, but at least 30-40 times in a row as bowmen are supposed to
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>>64180920
>better adapted to warm weather, ie have slimmer bodies and smaller tits.
A Mexican has entered the conversation.
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>>64180837
Where do all Chinese women with big tits go?
Tiktok
https://www.tiktok.com/@qingqing51/video/6997696964133489925
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>>64184326
>boob job
ewwwww
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>>64184075
> t.
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>>64184043
why? there are modern hobbyists who can draw 200 lbs. in a society where people practice archery as part of their profession or class expectation, and drawing from a much larger population, we would expect some rare examples of people drawing 20% heavier than the top modern hobbyist.
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>>64183793
You just did, retard.
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>>64189398
you can find videos of the current record holder, mark stretton. he's a burly guy, but he doesn't have a particularly large frame nor is he particularly muscular. he looks like your average strongfat tradesman. 200 lbs draw weight is not the peak of human potential. archery in general is extremely niche. heavy poundage warbow archery even moreso. no reason to believe that a rare historical specimen could not pull more.
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>>64180920
>You have to understand that big tits are something of a cold weather adaptation for humans.
then why do so many Mediteranians have them?
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>>64189450
that bow is 60lbs tops. again, may i see it?
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>>64189398
>>64189462
>modern hobbyist
>pulling less than a malnourished rice eating chink that weighs a half of that
implessive
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>>64180821
>How I know you're a gwailo CIA faggot
A true Chinaman will focus his chi from 40 years of celibacy and cultivation into his bare fists and punch faster than the speed of light in a jade-like fury.
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>>64180916
Lots of housewives fought in the Second Opium War, huh?
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>later, OP was judged to be illegally fighting during an Auspicious day, and per the legalist interpretation was beheaded (along with his entire family) for this disruption of Harmony of Heavens and Earth
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>>64190112
>beheaded
OP wishes. It's 誅連九族 via 凌遲 time
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>>64189516
it was white men like saxton pope and his brother who noted the extreme draw weights of some chinese/manchu bows and claimed that no white man could draw them. obviously this is because white people hadn't been training to pull heavy poundage bows for hundreds of years while there were still chinese doing it even in the 19th century.
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>>64190112
finally i get to post this
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>>64183881
>manlets that either starved all their life or only ate rice
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>>64190490
>it was white men like saxton pope and his brother who noted the extreme draw weights of some chinese/manchu bows and claimed that no white man could draw them.
implessive and totally real ching chong
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>>64189462
I thought Joe Gibbs beat him a few years ago.
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>>64183881
No it fucking isnt, lmao. You are severely overestimating people
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>>64183916
Interesting, did they need a lot of armour penetration? Cultures who fought without armour such as the Comanche had much lighter warbows, but fired much faster instead.
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>>64184307
>Mexico City elevation: 2 km above sea level
>Shanghai: 4 meters
Also they have an obesity problem

>>64189493
>why do so many Mediteranians have them?
Nutrition. And even then south Italians and south French were traditionally flatter.
And to repeat myself: most of China's population lived below fucking Cairo's latitude.
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>>64194659
>Cultures who fought without armour such as the Comanche had much lighter warbows, but fired much faster instead.
>instead
That's cope. Everyone with the resources to train people to use bows with draws over 80 pounds did so, except for those who doubled and tripled down on slings or something else equally autistic and powerful.
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>>64194933
Yep, if you're not defeating armor then you're using lightweight flight arrows for range instead, which can be shot further using a heavier bow. Turkish and middle eastern bows invested heavily into that.
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>>64184046
This is what happened in Hero so I believe it
>Peerless archers of Qin



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