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Believe what you want, but I know for sure that there was even a special hook on the armor to make it easier to shoot.

Yes, yes, yes! The lore master must have been a retired cavalry crossbowman himself, right? A special hook to make it easier to shoot FROM A CROSSBOW WHILE ON A HORSE IN HEAVY ARMOR? You must have been smoking something really good.
This is approximately how a standard crossbow was loaded.

And in general, all your praised elven arrows and bows are nonsense. First, elves are not professionals in this field.

Well, here you messed up more than anyone else.

They can only make bows that are suitable for hunting. Secondly, even to pierce chainmail, you need a sharp iron tip.

Proof, or you know what I mean. Another Wood Elf who was arguing that Ents don't move correctly.

I doubt they can do that, sitting in trees and eating bananas.

There's not much to say here, maybe... Lordic accidentally looked in the mirror while writing the post, and his thoughts got mixed up.

Also, a bunch of pointy-eared idiots, holed up in the forest, won't be able to put up a fight against an entire army, even if they are initially lucky and use the element of surprise and maybe even injure someone, but they will quickly be found and then paraded around for ridicule.

Even a handful of archers will crush your pathetic army of cans, let alone an army of elves. It will be unbalanced.

Tell me. Justify it.

I told you, I justified it.