10-17-2014, 03:01 PM | #21 |
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Re: Typical ST for a war bow?
From there it's one per 20 points in combat, military, or police skills and one per 10 points in a style or combative template.
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10-17-2014, 04:05 PM | #22 | |
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Really if 120+ lbs bows are only for exceptional individuals, why did the Mary Rose have 250 of them? Last edited by sir_pudding; 10-17-2014 at 06:08 PM. |
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10-17-2014, 06:00 PM | #23 |
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Re: Typical ST for a war bow?
Mary Rose.
I try not to correct people on this thread, but calling a ship that sank with people on board makes me want to black-humor-giggle when called Merry. Ain't nobody merry on that boat.
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10-17-2014, 06:02 PM | #24 |
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10-17-2014, 06:51 PM | #25 |
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Re: Typical ST for a war bow?
Still trying to figure out, 98 lbs for average training, 144 lbs for (large numbers of) skilled archers, or should it be 128 lb? I'm trying to figure out what to assume for a large group of soldiers, who for playability's sake would have identical stats. Should average training be be an assumption of (typically) 98 lb, and skilled be an assumption of (typically) 144 lb? And if they've gone through somewhat less training then English longbowmen, would it still be 144 lbs, or 128 lb?
(Or more accurately, average training meaning skilled soldiers, but with training split about equally between hand-to-hand and archery, or maybe more in melee combat.) |
10-17-2014, 11:45 PM | #26 |
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Re: Typical ST for a war bow?
Yes. Idea is that more powerful weapons require greater skill to get those last dregs of optimal use, part of my continuing efforts to tinker with the skill system. Mostly based off personal experience where stronger bows definitely felt more difficult to control even if I could still draw them fully. Still, my experience is very limited so I'm open to counter arguments.
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10-18-2014, 01:17 AM | #27 | |
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Personally I'd say the combination of needing high St and High skill is potentially double dipping the cost of accessing this effect. In terms of stringer bows being more difficult to control I'd say its a more a factor of trying to keep a heavy bow drawn while aiming. If you use the AP system you can show that with a little tweaking. (I think historically heavy war bows were not aimed for this very reason, but then that's because they were shooting at larger patches of ground at set distances) Last edited by Tomsdad; 10-18-2014 at 01:41 AM. |
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10-18-2014, 01:41 AM | #28 | |
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Then you also have the other issues that a ST17 longbowmen is actually kind of wasted on a battle field doing 1d+2, when he could be doing 3d+3 with a halbard*. And can wear 110lbs of armour before being lightly encumbered (or roughly three DR5 mail haubucks). ST17 is almost 3x stronger (in terms of BL) than the average human, I think that once we're talking about thousands of such individuals in medieval England moving that far away from average in such broad terms is pretty unlikely. Then you have the issues of that if these archers are not mixing it up in melee to take advantage of their ST's than the troops you are relying on in melee have to roughly be as strong or stronger to be there. So that's everyone on the battlefield at that level of ST (or running away from those archers). Basically there are a lot of knock on effects by saying well just give historical archers the base ST they need to fire such bows. *Which is of course it own problem, but partially countered by the fact they can wear a lot of DR. |
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Bows occupy an interesting niche as far as muscle powered weapons. Imagine if a knight had to get a new, precisely calibrated sword every time his ST changed. My general philosophy on arming archers is that an (adventuring) archer will get the most powerful bow they can afford, up to their effective ST for using a bow. The corollary being that if a single design is mass produced and issued en masse, those archers will train up to the ST needed for that bow and generally no farther. Quote:
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10-18-2014, 02:50 AM | #30 | |
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Using realistic rules vetted on physics and math in comparison to rules that are arbitrary is a bit daft. One is based on reality, the other is literally there because someone said: "eh, looks good". The st based damage chart is not realistic, so any use of it to peg real world stats is completely impossible. And produces crazy things like st 17 longbowmen who make better sense as st 17 swordsmen. Its obvious that extremely powerful longbows were used in numbers for long periods of time, and the numbers for st dont jive with reality. To get a massively powerful warbow, like those used on the Mary Rose, you have to have a lot of conans. Which is ludricrous. The problem is not that st 13+ is extremely rare. Its that the rules for st are pretty whacked. The table needs to be adjusted to make st 13+ not ludricous to possess. I think theres a lot of ways to do this. But it has to be fixed, because currently its impossible to build a longbow archer who wouldnt rip the head off an Nfl lineman. Because i have met some people who shoot at the lower level of warbow territory, and while they are strong and fairly fit, they arnt linemen size. Maybe wide reciever, qbs or a small safety. Maybe a small linebacker. There has to be more deviation between the "average" than 5 levels of strength. I am, again, partial to doubling hp, doubling drs, keeping the damage chart the same, and giving all guns a base armor divisor of 2. Greater granularity. Otherwise your going to constant bump heads with the unrealistic melee and lifting for st.
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