ANST - Combat archers

[Bob Dewart]

That's the minimum safe firing distance for that event.  I believe that by
the Fighters Handbook it is still 10 fen for bows and 15 feet for crosbows.
Please Note; these are **minimum** safe firing distances.

Gilli

-----Original Message-----
From: DAFPIG at aol.com <DAFPIG at aol.com>
To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: ANST - Combat archers


>
><<<< "And the engagement rule is now 15' for both bows and crossbows. This
is
>the same rule as for Gulf Wars."
> So why 30' instead of 15'?
>  Merrik Viltar Har
> Northkeep Knight Marshal>>>>
>
>Greetings,
>
>I'll give you my reason why I like to shoot further out than 15ft.  In a
busy
>melee situation, it can become very HARD to determine exactly how far 15ft
is.
>I have on occasion, shot folks closer than 15ft...usually they were coming
at
>me and I was unable to judge their speed/distance correctly.  It happens,
but
>I hate to do it.
>Most time the engaging shield wall will be about 10ft from your front line,
>you'll be about 5 ft back..give another 5 for the spearmen behind the wall
and
>about another 10 or 15 for the comanders...thus your enemy comanders and
dukes
>ect.. will be roughly 30ft from you..thus 30ft spear<g>  These are the
>fighters we are suppose to be elminating first. lol..... of course, I'll
shoot
>anyone that grabs  my attention regardless of who they are :)
>
>Octavia
>Ps.  I hate to have people tell me who to shoot.  Alot of the time the shot
>"isn't there".


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