Belisarius could see dozens of them beginning to bring their powerful bows to bear.
They were well out of range of our own less powerful bows.
Among them should be at least a few which could be laminated into a powerful bow.
He wasn't ready to bend a powerful bow to shoot at a target 300 meters distant.
A large powerful bow, something along the lines of a crossbow.
On the other hand, Anastasius used such a powerful bow that the wound was terrible.
Moreover, powerful bows required far more in the way of muscle power than guns.
However, it is most likely that these were simply different variants of the powerful composite bow.
The nomads shot back, but even their powerful bows could not reach so high.
Nothing short of a very powerful bow would put a missile up into the canopy with force great enough to kill.