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Yeah I believe this as well, since a coordinated firing of arrows would be more effective, and because still today military commands largely consist of a prepatory phase and an executing phrase.

Like

"Company... ATTENTION"

"EEEEEYEEEEES..... RIGHT.

"Preseeeent... ARMS"

etc

So it'd make sense. The commander just basically gives the tempo, but the commander knows what it feels like to do it, so you don't get shit like "draw"... [extender pieces of dramatic faces and dialogue which symbolises a loaded gun held to someones face] and then "loose" /relax, because drawing a war bow takes some serious fucking muscle. So the "draw, loose", would almost be in the same breath. Almost. But one breath apart. But so the voice synchronises them all. Just like it does with steps in modern militaries.

One still needs a person besides the form goin "left, left, left right left" to achieve the uniformity. Well from a well experienced group, less so,, but you still need the starting "company.... march" command to sync the starting step at least.