Re: Crossbows

Ya in AD&D you could take a slash to the gut take 20 points of damage
and still survive the fight! I mean in real life your guts would be all
over the floor and youd BE DEAD!!!!! But in AD&D high level heros are
invinceable in real life human (elves draves..etc) are more delicate! I
mean comeon in real life a guy gets a bullet to the abdomen and dies in
AD&D a hero gets slashed hacked burned cut and diced and still manages
to make it out _alive_!!!

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To: spelljammer@????.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 08:07:14 -0400
Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] - Crossbows
From: yoshi422@????.com (Will A Wagner)
Reply-To: spelljammer@????.com

You are right, archers are important people. If you ever played WarCraft
you want to put a line of knights in front of a line of archers. Then,
by
the time the orcs get up to the knights they're basically pincushions
:-)
Archers lay cover fire for infantry/cavalry, and are really good in
large
numbers. For example warcraft again. elven Archers in a group of like 20
can defend a good sized abse almost by themselves. AD&D is incredibly
unrealistic, because if someone sticks a longsword in you you take 1d8
damage , but in the real world you just kinda fall over and die.
Warcraft
is like that too, but it has 256-color graphics. :-)
HawkAngel
<<I believe that archers were useds as a ! THe archers would distract
the

knights and footsoldgers, I mean when you have 100 knights charging at
you swords drawn what do you do call the archers. I mean lets face it
not all people are like our PCs taking multiple arrow shots to various
parts of thier bodies, they would fall to the _GROUND_. Like in the
movies>>

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