They did not evolve as guns did to become more accurate, of longer range, and with father rates of fire with each successive generation. Instead, as threats to knight increased in capability, and as the knight himself and the masculine pronoun is appropriate here became more and more specialized at breaking formations, and also better at doing so, the cycle of adaptation resulted in a wide variety of new forms of weapons and armor...
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Time and time again in the Crusades, the crossbow, and not force of the knight in melee, proved the decisive factor. However, although mounted crossbowmen were used extensively in Spain, crossbowmen could not maneuver quickly while shooting, and this meant that they were vulnerable while used, for example, (by the Ottomans at Necropolis and the English at Aginour but the archer simply could not hold open ground against a well-performed cavalry charge...
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