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Originally Posted by jacobmuller
Are the muscle powered weapon stats wrong?
I know long-bows were better than 18th century muskets. Wasn't it Washington who would have preferred his army be armed with them?
One of the reasons for the change from muscle-power to gun-powder was training time. Crossbows and muskets are DX/E, default DX-4; Bows are DX/A, default DX-5. I'd not heard the one about centralised production before - you learn something new every day.
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GURPS bows can punch through plate at over 200 yards and are no harder to use than muskets. Crossbows are actually
easier to shoot accurately than 18th century muskets.
A soldier using a Brown Bess musket with 2 points in Guns (Musket) has skill 11 and fires at effective skill 13 after aiming. A soldier using a Composite Bow with 2 points in Bow has skill 10 and fires at skill 13 after aiming. The crossbow-using soldier with 2 points in Crossbow has skill 11 and fires at effective skill
15 after aiming.