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Originally Posted by Icelander
Mostly, yes. Bows range from maybe 1 lb to 3 lbs. Anything a PC would be using is probably 2-3 lbs.
There are heavier bows, but these suffer greatly in performance.
You draw in one motion. If you didn't, you probably couldn't draw at all and you certainly couldn't hit anything.
Depending on the breaks, people probably draw about 2.25-2.5xBL. An average person, ST 10, uses something between 40-50 lb. The strongest bows are 200 lb.
Drawing a bow is not precisely the same as lifting stuff, so realistically, we can't expect an exact match. But it's far closer to 2xBL than 4xBL.
Bow penetration is far too high at high ST scores, off course. But that, as Douglas Cole noted earlier, is something only a completely revised damage system for GURPS could fix.
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I was assuming 1 motion, but if one were to measure the action it would be more than 1 Mississippi long. If that was the case then wouldn't the draw be equal to double 2 arm BL? In B15 it says you can take 2x the time for double the weight.
I agree with the limiting damage to thr+2 btw. The bleeding rules, sapping FP? and HP, characters wounded would lose FP quickly and more likely to suffer the 1/3 FP penalty.
History of War by Procopious (available in Project Guttenberg) notes the style difference of Byzantine vs Savaran Kataphrakts. Particularly the Draw time, the Byzants focusing on Power and Accuracy and the Sassanids focusing on Rate of Fire. This could be also interpreted to different Bow Doctrines. Since the Byzantines expect armored horses and kataphracts to their Imperial Peers, they may be going for heavier draw weight for a greater threat range. Reading up on Nomad Horse Archery doctrines, noting there was really 2 difference schools regarding Rate of Fire. Particularly when historians discuss about Horse Archer doctrines upon the arrival of the crusaders in the 11C were different from the "lighter" and less disciplined compared to their "older doctrines" there is reasonable evidence to greater than 1 second draw time.