Hawkwood - Vol. 6 Ch. 33 - Merciless and Ruthless

[MangaDex]

 

[norctune]

Is that the mercenary knight wannabe hired by the Count of Alencon? What the hell is he doing there?

 

[Panzercracker]

@norctune they are not mercenary knights, they are The Knight Order of Chartres

 

[LowSanity]

Crossbows can penetrate plated armour but the distance must be close and you need to hit the plate in one of the places it's not rounded. Otherwise it will bounce off like any glancing blow. I doubt anything other then Arbalest or siege crossbow is able to penetrate multiple plates(those soldiers were supposed to wear excessive amounts of armour). Crossbows used weren't of arbalest nor siege kind.

 

[Rosen_Ritter]

More like The Knight Order of Friendly Fire

 

[InedibleSpook]

@LowSanity The Genovese were trained in crossbow warfare and received the Bonus Penetration skill to bypass even the thickest and most round armor. Wear heavy armor, double your armor, triple your armor, you can't stop them.

 

[Zael]

What a cliffhanger!
(Also, in the olde English they used the word arbalest, though the imagery sure didn't support that, and the bolts weren't even tipped.)

 

[Solaz]

Kind of disappointing that the armor is basically paper mache even double layered with shields and a bit of distance in front of them.

 

[ninjadork]

@Solaz It's called the lightsaber effect, when writers and artists don't understand the realities of the armor they are writing about.

 

[Grimmycoffee]

@Solaz @ninjadork To be fair, even if they didn't die they will either collapse due to exhaustion (they are after all running with full armor they just wear for the first time) or retreat.

It probably won't work like this irl, but I can't really judge because I don't know the effective range of crossbow and how far they are in the manga