Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-98.102.158.34-20140908143429/@comment-25555436-20150722173214

Pnakasone wrote:

Think of the bow versus the flint lock musket. Until the invention of the repeating rifle using self contained cartilages the only real advantage that guns had was training time needed use the weapon well enough for combat.Years for the bow versus weeks for the musket.

You're forgetting of how while Armor>Arrows with only very specific exceptions which were rather situational, Bullets>Armor because they pierced through it like butter. That's guns's real advantage over bows. Arrows can be blocked, resisted or even evaded. Try doing the same with bullets.

@Hope: It's Glynda Goodwitch, not Glenda Good Witch (no person on their sane mind would give their daughter "Good" as a middle name...or as a name at all).