Compound bows. Crossbows are too hard to reload rapidly.
The last time I heard tell of the King of Sweden, Cab Calloway was still crooning:
MINNIE THE MOOCHER
Cab Calloway
Folks, here’s a story ‘bout Minnie the Moocher
She was a red-hot hoochie-coocher
She was the roughest, toughest frail
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale
(Chorus)
Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi (hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi)
Whoa-a-a-a-ah (whoa-a-a-a-ah)
Hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee (hee-dee-hee-dee-hee-dee-hee)
He-e-e-e-e-e-e-y (he-e-e-e-e-e-e-y)
She messed around with a bloke named Smokey
She loved him though was cokey
He took her down to Chinatown
And he showed her how to kick the gong around
She had a dream about the King of Sweden
He gave her things that she was needin’
He gave her a home built of gold and steel
A diamond car with a p-la-ti-num wheel
He gave her his townhouse and his racing horses
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes
She sat around and counted them all a million times
Unless you are smart as classical age China and build a repeating crossbow where you feed arrows via a magazine. Not sure if you would get the same penetration as a regular crossbow though.