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So the paint marks the spot the arrow went in, in case you didn't notice it? |
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Half-Baked already - check Medieval Paintball. It's mentioned. |
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<nemesis>Just what we need! More ways for people to hurt each other! If I had my way notmarkflynn would be crushed into the hard earth by 314,506,235 of these, and it would serve him right.</nemesis> |
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I was think a widening of the shaft just before the paintball tip, recessed to make it easier to tie in the paintball whilst fletching it. It'll bruise, but it won't stick inside you. |
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Medieval Paintball has sponge arrows, which is not quite the same. Still, really close. |
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There was a medieval type of crossbow that shot rocks . . . well, one rock at a time . . . called a stonebow. It had a pocket like a slingshot, and probably could be reproduced to shoot paintballs.
I've been sketching a longbow with a pocket for shooting stones. Paintballs are squishy, but I can see ways around that. |
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There shouldn't be any need for an arrow shaft behind a paintball--that sounds dangerous. If you want to shoot blunt arrows at people, there probably is no need for paintballs--a fellow with an arrow tangled in his padding knows that he has been hit. |
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Or is there something Freudian about this idea that I'm missing? Hmm; long shaft, splattering liquid, projecting dominance . . no, nothing suggestive there. |
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do you mean a ballista [bacon]? |
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Yeah, ballistas, which I can't figure out how to pronounce, could be made to fire rocks or large bolts. I have a book of crossbows written by an English gentleman who builds them for fun. |
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Now that I think of it, this is almost baked. In the PC gmae "Theif," your character could use arrows with a hollow glass tip filled with water, which could put out candles and the like, but were useless in combat. |
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//do you mean a ballista [bacon]?// No, I mean a stonebow. A shoulder-fired weapon so like a crossbow that they are often confused. (I've seen old stonebows displayed with crossbow bolts and with the bows strung with pouchless strings.) I am linking to a page I Googled. |
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Stonebows were often used for hunting birds, so they might be compared to shotguns. The idea was that the rocks were expendable, I think. I do not know that stonebows were ever used in war in Europe--the Chinese may have developed them for war. I do know that the bow was one piece, flexed, not a torsion bow with two arms like a ballista. |
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