Hello everyone, I'm here to talk about board wargames and how they can provide valuable insight into how the historiography of the Middle Ages has been adapted for an audience of history enthusiasts outside of the well tread grounds of movies and television. #MAMG22 1/12 Historical wargames designers put a lot of research into their games, but they are often limited by what materials they can access, and even when they can access academic materials current scholarship may not answer the types of questions they are asking. #MAMG22 2/12

It’s a rare occasion indeed when anything crossbow related gets traction basically anywhere, so I’m going to use the popularity of this tweet as a spring board to talk about my favorite weapon. 1/lots

https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1300009077347700741

I would like to start by saying that I’m not ragging on this person specifically. In fact many of the issues I’m about to talk about are common in even academic works of military history. The problem is that basically nobody studies the crossbow so it's never challenged. 2/