Better gryphons ?
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Better gryphons ?
Couldn't Gryphons attack with a bow ?
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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.
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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.
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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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?.
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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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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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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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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