Low/High-Tech Military Air Guns

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Those are still direct fire, the firing element is directly laid in on the target.

Exactly what distinction are you making between direct and indirect fire? Battlefield archery targets an area rather than an individual, and if you had high tech comms you could perfectly well use it with a spotter and archers who were unable to see their target. Kinetic artillery is relatively inefficient because the minimum effective size for a gravity-powered dart is much higher than the minimum effective size for an explosive-powered chunk of shrapnel, but it's still artillery.