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Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

Summary by A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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 holds up his hand with that ‘wait for it’ gesture and then shouts ‘loose!’ (or worse yet, ‘fire!’) and all of the archers release at once, producing a giant cloud of arrows. And then those arrows hit the enemy, with whole ranks collapsing and wounded soldiers falling o…
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A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry broke the news in on Friday, May 2, 2025.
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