Re: Re: Mile-throw javelins

From: Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_...>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 09:32:06 +0200 (CEST)


Mark Galeotti
> That's how I work it. 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...

That's easy - sooner or later the javelin will deliver a glancing blow and be defledcted to arch highly over the rest of the line. Happened to me with archery shooting through shrub...

Even worse, one of the targets might have Reflection on...

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