The Missile Thread - Hints, Tips and Information

[Greyblades]

I had the same impression. I thought crossbows came around because they shot bolts with increased velocity to provide armor penetration compared to a traditional bow. To arch a crossbow shot would mean you are shooting from too far a range wouldnt it?

At least with the velocity of modern crossbows when hunting, you definetly are not arching a shot up in the air and hoping it comes down on the buck.... You are indeed shooting it much more similar to a firearm based on the range you should be shooting from.

The crossbow units later on in the WRE campaign I had were awesome. I wasnt using them like traditional archers, but now that I know they can shoot over a line of infantry I am going to use them more (plus they get flaming shot and heavy shot options like regular archers do, and I dont remember previous TW games having those options on crossbow units)

Hrm, it worked for me, but the arches were rather shallow, I was surprised there wasnt any friendly fire among the palatina guards they were shooting over. Obviously I stopped the crossbows when they collided with the enemy germanic nobles, but I suppose it could be that the whistling arrows were so weak they just bounced off the palntina's armour, will have to experiment with weaker units.

Edit: yes crossbows can fire over infantry, but it gets a bit messy the closer the enemy and your infantry get. I havent seen them do anything as extreme as the english longbow's "shoot right upwards and hit something 400 yards away" or anything, but they seem to be able to aim high enough that the infantry doesn't yell at them.