Alternately, if you're a relatively enlightened mideival and have yeomanry, you can go the English route and make longbow the national sport. Handing out prizes to the best local longbowmen every month or so and offering a decent wage in time of war will get you a fair block of people who train *themselves*.
Still, the point of longbow was that it could punch through heavy armor (especially cavalry) at range. If you don't have the heavy armor to deal with so much, it's just not as big a deal.
Still, the point of longbow was that it could punch through heavy armor (especially cavalry) at range. If you don't have the heavy armor to deal with so much, it's just not as big a deal.