Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25981649-20190516130935

May I begin with a quote, directly from our lord and saviour himself?

"[Shooting] with bows on foot and on horseback was a chief sport and past-time of the Númenóreans In later days, in the wars upon Middle-earth it was the bows of the Númenóreans that were most greatly feared. 'The Men of the Sea' it was said, 'send before them a great cloud, as a rain turned to serpents, or a black hail tipped with steel;' and in those days the great cohorts of the King's Archers used bows made of hollow steel..."

If the description alone was not enough to convince you of the nature of these dreaded 'steel-bows', I shall present to you my (obviously extremely conservative) interpretation of what Tolkien had really intended when he spoke of these fowl ranged weapons who blew clouds of dark hail:



They would obviously be uncraftable, as this art of.. *ahem* bowyery *ahem* had been lost along with their proud nation, and can only found on the island of Meneltrama, Numenorean Ruins and Black Numenorean Ruins, along with their ammunition...



They would have twice the damage of a crossbow, take slightly longer time to reload, and would penetrate past 40% of armor protection.

Not OP...

Not OP at all... 