Re: How to go about making an Ultra Tech Bow
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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth
The only one of these things you couldn't easily do better with a non-bow design is the surprise value of using something completely ridiculous. And if inflicting shock and bemusement is the goal, dressing your stuff up like a particularly campy Batman villain is probably easier.
Certainly in some circumstances a low-powered, low-profile weapon that can be used as a payload launcher is preferable to a TL-appropriate assault rifle. The problem is that a bow is a particularly ungainly way of filling that role. A compressed-gas gun or linear spring gun could do the same job in a more ergonomic (DX/E) and probably more accurate and powerful form.
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Originally Posted by Anthony
There's really no reason to favor a bow over a compressed air weapon or properly designed silenced chemical weapon; in the end, you have a device that propels a heavy projectile at a low velocity, and we have better energy storage systems than bending elastic materials nowadays.
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Shall I go back and edit my previous comment to say "excuses"; I thought the thread already recognized that without a lot of bending, there just is no reason to use a bow and arrow for this setting? Clearly I didn't make that clear with my comments. >_<
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