heroic archery questions.

[Jaware]

From how I understand it, heroic archery halves quick shooting penalties. (-6s become -3s, or -1s with weapon master)

I have a player that wants to feint with a bow while quick shooting.

He has the advantages, and the skill level to do so etc.

But we are disagreeing on the penalty.

I'm looking at it like the act of knocking the arrow, and then the act of shooting the bow are things that would take an individual 2 separate turns to pull off. And as such they are penalized as such. -6 to each. Half ed and half ed appropriately.

My my thoughts, adding a feint in there should add another "thing" to this list. Eg. 3 things that normally take a turn each to do. Leaving with a -12 to each. Halved and halved as appropriate.

But he doesn't think it should be that way because "readying the bow at a -6/-3/-1 isn't an attack and it shouldn't have the other other chunk of the penalty put on it, only the attack and the feint.

But by my logic, a feint isn't an attack either, but it follows the rules of doing lots of things in a turn the same as attacks and the like.

Any body have any official stances on the subject?