Re: Qin crossbow in TFT?

Subject: Re: Qin crossbow in TFT?

From: David Bofinger <bofinger.david@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 02:33:39 +0200

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Standard TFT distinguishes between bows (high rate of fire, low ST requirement, low damage, bow talent) and crossbows (low rate of fire, high ST requirement, high damage, crossbow talent). A repeating crossbow is a crossbow that sacrifices damage to get rate of fire, so it would probably look a lot like a bow, except for using the crossbow talent. At the level of resolution of standard TFT I think it's possible to implement but would look too much like a bow to have much impact.

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David

On 17 Aug. 2017 10:13, "Cris Fuhrman" <fuhrmanator@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone ever worked up numbers for a Qin crossbow? I just saw the Emperor's Ghost Army on Nova http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/emperors-ghost-army.html and a historian claimed the weapon was "two millenia ahead of its time." A test firing shows it penetrates laminated armor, etc. The mechanics supposedly allowed it to be used by peasants and fired much faster than European crossbows that had cranks, etc. Seems like it would make play unbalanced, but I'm curious.

Another link: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1742671/qin-dynasty-crossbow-found-chinas-terracotta-army-site-may-reveal-secret

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