Post-apocalyptic TL 5/8

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by CraigM

With the bows, I was thinking of the concept of compound bows (i.e. cams) rather than materials. Regardless of what you make it out of, camming allows a person to use a much stronger bow.
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Bows have some stealth advantages, but their popularity will depend on just how hard it is to get hold of decent firearms. I was brainstorming "possible" rather than "exceptionally useful".

Bows are useful, and once you have good cams made, which you can do with artisan quality, any hack can then make bolts/arrows for you.

The biggest constraint on firearms is ammo, getting good quality powder for reloads, etc., issues which are totally bypassed with compound bows and compound crossbows, even if they have to be made out of recycled leaf-springs.