> Anyway, even if you say the javelin flies for
> a mile, that doesn't preclude it passing through someone on the way.
> Though, thinking about that, a minimaxer might suggest it could cut
> a whole file out of a serried enemy phalanx, but I'd hope that
> common sense would ensure that a narrator rule that the javelin
> would have flown for a mile were it not for the numerous Dara
> Happans beginning to be kebabbed along it...
Don't javelins normally have a curved flight path? Up, then down to the
target? You might kebab a lot of *flying* troops that way, but I can't
see it working on infantry.