Re: questions
Greg Lindahl (lindahl@pbm.com)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 17:49:34 -0500 (EST)
> >2)According to the rules archers and crossbowmen receive their
> > missile value or their offense value whichever is higher
> > Does this mean that crossbowmen in the first line have an
> > offense of 25 instead of 1 ?
>
> Apparently so, though I have recently been wondering about the realism
> of this very rule. How can a crossbowman make use of a weapon which often
> takes upwards of a minute to reload, while a swordsman is standing right in
> front of him, swinging his longsword?
Olympia's combat system is an abstraction: you have no idea what a
round of combat is or what kind of formation your men are using. Given
this, there's no point in worrying about "realism" like you are above
-- maybe the swordsman gets shot while he's still far away?
-- g
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