Stone can pierce armour?
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Stone can pierce armour?
Re: Owned by uber levy slingers?
The damage a lead bullet does is considerable. Basically the ancient equivalent of a shot gun - which is what the sling was used for.
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Re: Owned by uber levy slingers?
The whole point is that it doesn't pierce armour, but that is where it's strength lies. If an arrow fails to penentrate (as it likely will if you wear good armour) then only minor brusing will be done, at the very most. This is due to the arrows low momentum.
However, a lead bullet has very high momentum, so even if you wear a full curiass, you will still get broken ribs because the shock of the bullet hitting you will just be transmited through the armour, sure the curiass is better than nothing, and will help difuse the force, but you're still going to weak up sore in the morning (if you ever do). Simiarly, whereas an arrow will just bounce off a helmet, the helmet will transmit sufficent energy from the stone to know you out, or even give you sever concusion.
Thus, although sling bullets aren't actualy ap in themselves, the damage they deal, is.
Last edited by Pharnakes; 12-04-2007 at 21:25.
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Re: Owned by uber levy slingers?
+ 3 atk, -1 AP
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Re: Owned by uber levy slingers?
What?
AP is absolute, its there or it isn't sadly there are "gradings" of ap, otherwise slingers and the like would be easy to ballance, but....
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I think he meant no ap, as in fact it doesn't pierce armour, and without armour damage is around arrow...
Re: Owned by uber levy slingers?
The effect - focused blunt trauma - is basically around the same you get out of a mace (and to a somewhat lesser degree axe). Against an unarmoured target the effect is roughly similar to a musket ball by what I know of it (the Romans apparently had a specific tool for extracing sling bullets from bodies...), but in any case it doesn't as such have much in the way of an advantage over an arrow or javelin there.
If you amped the slingers' attack value that much to compensate for removing the AP attribute you'd just end with the buggers scything down lightly armoured targets like so much bowling pins, and basically turning them into super-archers.
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