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In this post we compared a longbow to a pistol.
What about a spear?
A thrown spear does thr+3 for damage. A ST 17 character throwing a spear will do 1d+5 damage, or 2d+1 imp. That's 3-13 rolled, 6-26 delivered on an unarmored opponent. Averages of 8 and 16 respectively.
The huge advantage a bow has is much longer range! 17 vs 250 yards for 1/2D.
Using something like a woomera to launch your spear ups the range to 25 yards and changes the damage to swing+3 imp. ST 17 swing damage is 3d-1!
3d+2 imp is 5-20 rolled and 10-40 delivered with 12 and 24 averaged.
Woomera, that's an atl-atl, right? Used one as a kid, could launch a medium spear 50 yards easy with fair accuracy.
ReplyDelete4e's Low Tech makes a distinction between the atl-atl and woomera.
DeleteEssentially the woomera is the heavy spear-thrower and the atl-atl the light. Woomera for spears, atl-atl for javelins.