>I may have an idea, but I'd like to run it past Joerg(anos) in particular.
>Bows. Those rather lovely animal-nomad recurves that I assume are a lot
>like a Skythian or Mongol bow. Just what you want for shooting down from
>a wall.
>
>Does this make any kind of sense?
> Assuming what Cults of Prax describes as "comp. bow" is that type.
> The Impala, Zebra and Unicorn tribes are described as using them.
Yes, those bows.
> How many do you think they could produce in a season?
I have no idea.
> Then there's the issue of training, you don't train archers quickly
> and even retraining existing archers to use the new weapon will
> take some time.
Not if you stick to the standard draw, not the horse draw. I've tried switching from longbow to recurve to one of those: it took under 1/2 hour to decide that I did not want to change back.
> >The armour, incidentally, I can only explain by thinking of exotic
> >hides. Rhino-hide armour, that sort of thing.
> Again how much of this is there going to be? The Rhino tribe is
> one of the smallest and rhinos take a fair time to grow to maturity.
Dunno. Probably not enough.
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