Better gryphons ?

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Better gryphons ?

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Couldn't Gryphons attack with a bow ?
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Post by Tomsik »

Gryphon riders are very good now, i think they dont need to be better.
Did you see dwarf with bow anyway?
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Post by Keelta MacRonan »

If you think it is realistic for a unit to be quite high in the air on a gryphon traveling at high speeds and taking off both hands to shoot a bow, by all means, press with this idea.

Look at tomsik for gameplay reasons, which happen to be more important than realism ones.
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Post by (S)elfish weirdo »

I think that gryphons are slightly overpowered (thought only slightly, they are far from invincible due to their high cost) therefor powering further would unbalance it.

And realism wise: shooting a bow from a horse was difficult and required lots of training, shooting a bow from a creature that is quite a bit faster as well as flying should be very hard, a dwarf shooting a bow should be completly impossible unless it has been fed with some kind of drug that induces a state of hippieness and caused the target to grow to twice the size.
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Post by Cuyo Quiz »

EL-OH-EL

Also, i don't see a dwarf doing archery, specially if you go to the side of realism...how much strong and accurate would be a dwarf-sized bow on a high speed creature?.
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Post by martenzo »

This could work with a thunderstick. I had such an idea a while ago, though I didn't post it. My idea was, that after the gryphon master, the line splits in 2, Gryphon Sniper (thunderstick/staff) and Gryphon Warrior(sword and/or spear) .
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Post by hunz »

IMO gryphons are already good and don't need any improve.

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I think your comments on dwarven archery are very inaccurate. Their bows could be much more powerful than a human's, because they are so much stronger, and I think they could easily hit their targets. They are obviously capable of great accuracy, delicacy and patience; how else could they have created the great artifacts of Wesnoth? Really, I see no reason dwarves would be bad at archery. In fact, Tolkien said they were nearly the best at archery in Middle Earth, second only to the elves.

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I don't think a bow in anyone's hand's on a gryphon would work, because 1) he would probably fall off, 2) the gryphon's movement is so unsteady it would be nearly impossible to aim, 3) as I understand it, the dwarf needs to be spending all of his energy controlling the gryphon. That's the reason no gryphon riders have even 1-handed weapons.
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Post by gryphonlord »

turin wrote:That's the reason no gryphon riders have even 1-handed weapons
Then what's the point of having a rider at all? Why not just train them to fight on their own? :?
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To be sure they don't get the silly idea to want to be free
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And so they know who to fight... teaching something to fight and not telling it what could have bad side effects.
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Post by Drake Pillager »

A drake riding a gryphon could still breath fire though!
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Post by Disto »

Drake Pillager wrote:A drake riding a gryphon could still breath fire though!
True, but we are still yet to see a drake riding a gryphon. And i want original graphics not burner placed partially behind a gryphon thank you.
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Damn you :P
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