Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site nrcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!andre From: andre@nrcvax.UUCP (Andre Hut) Newsgroups: net.games.rogue Subject: Re: Fighting with arrows Message-ID: <472@nrcvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 16:27:41 EST Article-I.D.: nrcvax.472 Posted: Thu Jan 23 16:27:41 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jan-86 05:39:53 EST References: <136@slu70.UUCP> <170@ulowell.UUCP> Reply-To: andre@nrcvax.UUCP (Andre Hut) Organization: Network Research Research Corp. Oxnard,CA Lines: 35 In article <170@ulowell.UUCP> dobro@ulowell.UUCP (Chet Dobro) writes: >> I've been playing rogue 3.6 and 5.2 and am still having some trouble figuring >> out the subtleties of the weapons. Specifically, I seem to get fairly good >> results by simply throwing arrows without actually wielding the bow or crossbow. >> This strikes me as a good technique as I don't have to waste a turn switching >> to my mace or whatever if the arrows fail to stop the monster. Is there any >> advantage to wielding the bow while shooting? > >As silly as this may sound, it is usually better *not* to use a bow when >throwing arrows. Crossbows are about even. Of course, if you have a magic >bow or crossbow, by all means use that. > >This comment comes from much experience playing and trying to throw arrows, >bot with and without use of bows. Granted, from a game mechanics point of >view I must be wrong, but I have markedly better hit-ratio w/o the bow! > The last comment here is wrong. If you check the rogue source files, you will discover that the bow is classified as an arrow launcher, and that if the bow is wielded while throwing the arrows, the value of the bow (+x,+y) is added to the value of the arrow to yield a somewhat better arrow. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ihnp4-\ sdcsvax-\ \ Andre' Hut sdcrdcf!psivax!nrcvax!nrcutah!andre hplabs--/ / ucbvax!calma-/ Network Research Corporation 923 Executive Park Dr. Suite C Salt Lake City, Utah 84117 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------