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Posteritatis

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5. A good one could have a range of a few hundred meters

Reply to Art_from_Ark (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 11:27 PM

Mar 2013

Same sort of thing as a good bow - either can put something astonishingly far downrange, and it gets further still if fired from a hill (or, for some reason, up at an angle).

Like bows they'd have wildly varying designs each with its own level of power and accuracy, of course. Either in hunting would be relatively close-ranged, but anything that's tossing a projectile with lethal force will have to be able to toss it pretty far.

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