| As I said earlier, leaders and outfitters of armies liked to be COOL. There was constant infighting and bickering between English lords who called up their armies should the king ask, and they wanted to look better than their peers. No-one would be seen dead with longbowmen when there were cooler boomsticks available. In the same way that I personally think crossbows are cooler than longbows regardless of their relative effectiveness, ease of use and other points, at the time, guns, even if they weren't actually any better than bows, were just cooler and everyone's men had to have them... |