Quote Originally Posted by Brother Oni View Post
As Agent Paper said, without means to quickly close distances, ranged combat would be far more important.

The feudal China influenced society would have a very long history of crossbows: link.
I don't think that it can be simplified to this either.

After all, in Hundred Years War, the French actually dismounted quite a few times, trying to respond to archer fire.

And Romans Empire at height of it's power didn't really bother with ranged combat, most pila were being lobed from extremely quick distance after all.

Artillery was employed a lot and often, though, I guess.