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Azigarath

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Annie,

Azigarath said :
Annie,
You mention Annie shot arrows and killed some werewolves, though a bow wielded by a child would have low draw weight and would not kill anyone. The werewolves are larger, stronger, and covered with fur, their bodies would naturally absorb some impact of all damage. Historically, most projectiles would not kill quickly, even if they hit their target. Note that arrows are easy to dodge, you just lean to the side, I have done this to dodge Cold Steel's boar spear thrown at me at close range. Arrows move, on average, about 65 kilometres/40 mph per hour.


Note:

Myles the Slasher, The Irish-American Almanac, 1876, about a 17th century Irish cavalier,
“At length he fell (defending a bridge against twenty Scotchmen), covered with a hundred wounds. Tradition adds that shortly before his death he had encountered a Scotch officer of gigantic frame and strength, who laid open the Slasher’s cheek with the stroke of his sword, but that the Slasher held the sword blade between his teeth, as firmly as if held by a blacksmith’s vise, until he cut down the Scotchman with his own sword.*


Bennet Burleigh, quote from Desert Warfare, 1884,
*The gaping wounds made by our almost explosive Martini-Henry bullets (explosive cartridges designed to be “man-stopping” bullets) scarcely checked the savages (charging Arabs or Sudanese in this case) in their wild career. It was only when the lead shattered the bone or a leg, or pierced the heart or brain, that their mad onrush was instantly stopped. I saw Arab after Arab, through whose bodies our bullets had ploughed their way through, charging down on the square, with the blood spouting in pulsating streams from them at every heart throb. Down they bore on us, some with two or three bullet wounds, but still pressing onwards to throw themselves upon our bayonets.”

30-Mar-2016 23:58:01 - Last edited on 30-Mar-2016 23:58:23 by Azigarath

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