Re: (TFT) Sports stuff

[Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>]

At 11:23 -0400 4/18/11, Jay wrote:
> I have a strong suspicion that the whole 5 second turn resulted from a
> trained archers assumed average rate of fire.

1 arrow/5 seconds is reasonable for me. I'm not a "trained archer" 
really, but I've spent a fair amount of time practicing at it.

2 arrows/5 seconds seems out of reach to me, but maybe someone 
*really* good could do that.

In fencing, I'd say 1 attack/5 seconds is reasonable. It takes me 5 
seconds or more to map out the feint, thrust, decieve, whatever else 
I'm going to do next to try to beat my opponent's defenses. Once the 
action starts, of course, there can be several "attacks" (counting 
parries, stop-thrusts, etc) within much less than 5 seconds, but at 
the end of the action, usually nothing happens for a while while each 
fencer thinks through what just happened, where a weakness might be 
for the next attack, etc.
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