Not sure if this was true before the VI expansion, but Pavise Arbalesters now appear to be unable to shoot when exhausted. The animation still reloads, aims and shoots, however, there are no hits and the bolt stack doesn't go down (kind of similar to the animation of archers in the woods when they are unable to target properly). Thus, usage of pavise arbalesters in the desert is rather limited now: they get exhausted really fast (the max I get them to shoot now is about 25% of their bolt stack) and they never recover to be able to shoot again. I guess, due to their hi armor rating, vanilla arbalesters would suffer from the same problem if placed in the desert.
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