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Thread: What about Bows for Rangers?
mabey have it where we can craft bow/arrows out of bones/hides?
what do you all think?
Yeah for hand to hand combat.
I think that the load time for bows and arrows would be too long. You would get rushed to quickly to successfully load an arrow into a bow (you would probably only get off one shot). It's bad enough that rifles are slow. I don't think that it would be very practicle.
Plus they would have to do uber damage on animals for them to be justified to use. I could see a slow bleed on them, but they already have those for regular weapons.
How about a bowcaster cert for Rangers ?
Just a random thought.
Bow has absolutly NO advantage over a gun...
Let me demonstrate... You get bow,,, I get gun... 10 paces and fire!
Me... OW MY LEG...
You... OW MY FOREHEAD AND MY FACE AND MY NECK AND MY CHEST...
Oh yah burst shot....
Ok, so who won? 
you obviously dont know much to say the bow has no advantage....or is that just your to modern...in any type of battle even against someone weilding a gun i would choose a melee weapon everytime
But for the bows purpose......A pistol.rifle and carbine would all have some sort of recoil on shots a bow would have a very minimum recoil providing for more accurate shots..for a ranger a load time would be fairly quick..have you ever seen a proffessional bowmen load his? It would also be much less noisy possible allowing you too puill from groups of Herders
I like the idea of Bowcaster certification, but I'm not sure if you even NEED Cert to be good a Bowcasters (or just be a Wookiee, which I am.. woot!), and even then it seems as if it'd only help Riflemen/Rangers..
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I always thought a Bowcaster would be like a Carbine. Something with a good kick and medium range. Never a pistol, however. 'sides.. we Carbineers need some love. ;_; I've yet to see a crafted non-CDEF Carbine with a collective HAM cost lower than 70, and to me.. that's sad. I see these FWG5 or whatnot pistols doing damage in the 100s with a speed of 3 and a combined HAM of 20, and that makes me a SAD little Carbineer. Meanwhile, I grab an E11 (one of.. what, four Carbines that are currently on the market, because they either cannot be crafted / no one will craft them?) and kill myself within three special moves. ..right, what was my point? o_O
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I think it is an interesting idea to use bows and stay hidden for a lot longer than we currently do prone with gun. Or use it to pull animals away from a herd. It may sound archaic but there is a lot of skill involved in bow hunting.
It would be cool to hit a bunch of red aggros in a herd with a bleeding shot and stay hidden and watch them die slowly (that sounded way more morbid than intended).
Draken-Korin Ranger/Pistoleer-Bloodfin
a bow could totaly be intigrated into the system....
although in its impliment, it would probly end up having similar stats as mid range rifles. Mabe a bonus to mask scent, or some stealth bonus to the shot, since shooting an arrow is a heck of a lot less noticable than some one poping a gun at you, with lasers ziping by you. That could be an assumption, but i have no rl compairison LOL.
I still think the best idea ive seen is the Dart system... mabe combine that with this, and you put applied traps onto arrows.
SpyderVenom_5765 wrote:
Bow has absolutly NO advantage over a gun...
Let me demonstrate... You get bow,,, I get gun... 10 paces and fire!
Me... OW MY LEG...
You... OW MY FOREHEAD AND MY FACE AND MY NECK AND MY CHEST...
Oh yah burst shot....
Ok, so who won?
Ranger is hidden, guy with gun won't be targeting anyway. Ranger has explosive tipped arrows, again, revist the Rambo comment. BOOM. no more guy. Arrow is silent when delevered so friend is still looking around when he too, goes BOOM.
Say, ask Ted Nudgent if he likes the gun better then the bow. Perhaps not in reference to shooting a keyboard...