[ReignOfError]

With every advance in armor an advance in anti-armor weapons is close behind.

AP, 1066: "Normans' vaunted knights are succumbing to Saxons' powerful crossbows"

[Dave Elias]

"AP, 1066: "Normans' vaunted knights are succumbing to Saxons' powerful crossbows""

Crossbows? - Try Housecarls with effin' great battle-axes. Saxons didn't have much in the way of bowmen at Hastings.

[R. Scott]

Yep.