>If you hit at an unarmoured person (armour ranking 0) with an arrow, you
>should at lest inflict a wound (penalty of -1), meaning at least a
>transfer of 7AP. To reflect the low danger of this action for the
>shooting person, he shouldn't have to bid more than 1AP for this. This
>results in a minimum weapon ranking of 6 for an arrow. Therefore a bolt
>should have a ranking of about 8.
But you assume any success means a physical hit. Loss of AP could just indicate the target having to duck (ducking is one thing, HAVING TO is another...), leap to safety, etc. or even just getting worried. Actually hitting the target is not the absolute minimum success.
>take the available cover in account. If there are lots of trees or huge
>stones, the attacked person should get some AP on top of his own.
Surely this would be better reflected in a defensive Edge (there's a tree in the way), or even a Bonus to any defensive skill (there could be a tree in the way, if you move to the right spot).
However, I do agree that excessive edges are not the way.
Wulf
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