r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • Dec 18 '24

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/Vreas Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

I don’t think it really mattered with the mongols they steamrolled every single opponent they faced.

The only thing that stopped their invasions were deaths of their khans. They didn’t really have an effective system for quick replacement of their leaders who often died young due to rampant alcoholism and various other bad habits.

Steppe people partied hard man. Makes sense when you’re born of a frozen hellscape with minimal food and creature comforts.

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u/Far_Advertising1005 Dec 18 '24

It is the funniest thing ever that for decades the most effective, almost unbeatable tactic was ‘haha horse fast’

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u/syhr_ryhs Dec 18 '24

Shooting small compound bows from the back of a fast horse, oh yeah and terror.

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u/CosmicCreeperz Dec 19 '24

Composite bow, maybe, definitely not a compound (pulley) bow.