- Draw an arrow. This normally takes a Ready Maneuver. This maneuver can be skipped with successful Fast-draw (arrow) skill roll.
- Nock an arrow and draw the bow. This normally takes a single Ready Maneuver. This maneuver can be replace with an Attack or All-Out Attack (Determined) Maneuver with a Bow-6 roll for Quick-shooting.
- Loose the arrow. This normally takes a separate maneuver of any Attack type, Using the Bow skill. However if can be the same maneuver as step 2 if Bow-6 was successful however this means a second Bow-6 roll to attack if so.
Both Bow-6 rolls can be reduced to Bow-3 by having either
Weapon Master(Bow) or
Heroic Archer, or Bow-1 with both.
Following those three steps. it can at worse take 2 Ready plus 1 Attack Maneuvers to attack or 1 Ready and one Attack Maneuver with a successful Fast-Draw. or only 1 Attack Maneuver of limited choice, with a successful Fast-Drawn and two penalizes Bow skills rolls.