Compound bow has the same power as a regular bow.. Its just easier to pull due to levering.
It doesnt go through it and that aint even a decent replica of the segmentation armor.
Romans used iron and steel layers... The armor is far more high-tech than would appear at first glance..
The huns were defeated on an open field by the romans eventually and driven out from central-europe.
The hans probably just relied on their walls against the huns.
Biggest issue was the roman empires sad state of affairs.. They couldnt raise enough legions.
Rome used to avenge all the shit that had been done to them BUT at the end the idiots in Rome didnt care about the territorial losses...
Too busy enjoying luxuries.
You're correct compound bow aren't much different from recurve bows, maybe 10-15% more energy efficient and the cams offer a reduction of draw weight up to -80% once at full pull length. But the guy in the vid was only pulling 65lbs, while Hun archers can pull more than twice the weight(120-180lbs) along with double broadheads can deliver over 50% more penetration compared to the triple ones they used, and with the momentum of the horse at over 60km/hr; With all that together Hun cavalry archers can deal about 3.75x more kinetic pentetion. Even if that lorica was cheaply made by today's standard it's still by far superior to the ones over a millenia ago, Roman armor very rare were made out of steel, even if it was it's just low carbonated steel(mild hardness only). By no doubt a Roman lorica as I've stated wouldn't stand a chance against Hun or Han archers.
Attila was king of the Huns, a non-Christian people based on the Great Hungarian Plain in the fifth century A.D. At its height, the Hunnic Empire stretched across Central Europe.The Romans considered the Huns to be barbarians, and under Attila's rule the Huns pillaged and destroyed many Roman cities.
Also while his people amassed an incredible amount of plunder, and blackmailed the eastern half of the Roman Empire out of thousands of pounds of gold, Attila himself was said to have lived relatively simply. The Roman diplomat Priscus attended a banquet with Attila and wrote that a "luxurious meal, served on silver plate, had been made ready for us and the barbarian guests, but Attila ate nothing but meat on a wooden trencher," (translation by J.B. Bury, through Georgetown University website).
"In everything else, too, he showed himself temperate; his cup was of wood, while to the guests were given goblets of gold and silver. His dress, too, was quite simple, affecting only to be clean." His shoes, sword and horse bridle were also unadorned.
Additionally, Attila did not believe that the ways of the Huns could be sustained forever. Priscus said that Attila was in a depressed mood at the banquet and the only person he was happy with was his youngest son, Ernas. When Priscus asked why, he was told "that prophets had forewarned Attila that his race would fall, but would be restored by this boy (Ernas)."
With many of theEastern Roman Empire's best troops campaigning against the Vandals, the Huns could not be stopped, and Attila and Bleda rampaged through the Balkans, ignoring peace feelers offered by Emperor Theodosius II. Eventually, the emperor recalled his troops from Sicily, and Attila and Bleda called it a day, heading back beyond the Danube with a huge amount of loot.
Kelly notes that Theodosius II was forced to agree to a peace treaty in which he gave Attila 2,100 pounds of gold a year. A staggering sum but one that, Kelly notes, the eastern empire could afford.He also notes that, for Theodosius, paying Attila was cheaper than fighting against him.
About the Chinese the walls were only use as a first line of defense when being invaded, but afterwards the Hans advance into the Hun's territory and beat the crap out of them and keep fighting them until the entire Hun empire fled and moved to Europe.
