Okay long bows only to be specific
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Okay but what if we had This irl (this is only half the weapon)
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mhm, because with melee weapons you get diminishing returns on raw strength - the strength threshold to outright pierce a pike through armour is so obscenely high that itās best to invest in other things. whereas with archery there is a direct increase in strength and accuracy offered by increased maximum output
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i donāt particularly like millitary history and barely studied any of it when i was studying but i know the basics of it because iād be a fool not to
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some day i will play a gunslinger in pf2e.
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This thing is awesome its such a comically large sword that it only does blunt damage
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genuinely though i think a game with a raw strength-focused archer would be really cool
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Scythian short recurve bows werent that hard to pull and they carried light equipment and fought on horseback. Afaik its the only instance in ancient history were women warriors werent at a disadvantage compared to men counterparts. And they employed a lot of women horse archers
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I mean i did say you could play one in season of ghosts you just probably wouldnt have the gun
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a gunslinger without a gun is just a slinger
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also update: it is MAJORLY throwing me that therei s a character named willow
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donāt siege leningrad, take it immediately
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Simply obtain a gun from the future
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thereās more instances than just that; the idea of natural male dominance in conflict is vastly overstated
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itās not that it doesnāt exist, we are a species with sexual dimorphism, but weāre also a species with relatively minimal sexual dimorphism. and besides, that only applies if you think of conflict as being the business of outright maiming the others, as opposed to the really important shit, which is organising the supplies and nutrients to allow for the grievous bodily harm
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should read Stalingrad and Life and Fate, both by Vasily Grossman
working my way through Stalingrad and itās so so so damn good
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Alternatively embrace the Slinger identity and use a Sling
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a sling is not a crowwbow
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shockingly, to do any of the stabby stabby shit, you need nutrients
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thereās a reason why Chinese millitary history is littered with instances of someone destroying a dam to ruin the harvest of crops, thereby winning the war and also causing unfathomable amounts of unrelated human suffering
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