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Old 11-20-2008, 11:53 AM   #3
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Default Re: Low-Tech Missile Weapon Range and Accuracy

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Originally Posted by DAlillama
AS I understand it, the adoption of early gunpowder weapons had more to do with politics that inherent superiority (this is 1500-16XX era, so TL 4). The advantage was that governments could control who had them more easily, because there were fewer gunsmiths around than people who knew how to make bows/crossbows, and few people could make significant quantities of powder on their own, while arrows/bolts are trivially easy for a person with the right skills to make.
There were a lot of reasons.

But the fact remains that Acc 4 for a typical crossbow is astronomically high. I'm looking for a more reasonable number, for it and for all other GURPS missile weapons.
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