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<blockquote data-quote="Fisk" data-source="post: 483764" data-attributes="member: 2410"><p>That is the one.... I can never remember the name...</p><p></p><p>I think the ballista could be a little pummped up actually.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This siege crossbow is THE sniper weapon. </p><p></p><p>crit range of 19-20 climbs to 17-20 as a "Deep woods sniper" (masters of the wild prestige class), 15-20 with improved critical, 13-20 if its the favored enemy (master of wild feat).</p><p></p><p>Now if you have the desire to have your Elven ranger/throw in a level of deep woods sniper so you can get keened bolts wants to throw all his money at getting a "magically enhanced Crossbow with <em> Distance, </em> and some <em>bursts</em> I am sure you can see how effective he could be from a 1/4 mile away at reigning down death to the evil Humans.</p><p></p><p>Or .... you could have them work in teams with a shooter and realoaders and the shooter could simply move from weapon to weapon while his loaders preped them behind him.</p><p></p><p>Add an arcane archer to the "fire team" and depending on how you feel about that character imbuing a weapon that they don't actually fire they could be adding more kick to the bolt.</p><p></p><p>A cleric that that casts silence on the bolt has now also given you a way to hinder their spell caster who mut now dig the bolt out before they can even think about casting spells.</p><p></p><p></p><p>These are any creature tactics that any one from elves to kobolds can use...... goodness knows we do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisk, post: 483764, member: 2410"] That is the one.... I can never remember the name... I think the ballista could be a little pummped up actually. This siege crossbow is THE sniper weapon. crit range of 19-20 climbs to 17-20 as a "Deep woods sniper" (masters of the wild prestige class), 15-20 with improved critical, 13-20 if its the favored enemy (master of wild feat). Now if you have the desire to have your Elven ranger/throw in a level of deep woods sniper so you can get keened bolts wants to throw all his money at getting a "magically enhanced Crossbow with [i] Distance, [/i] and some [i]bursts[/i] I am sure you can see how effective he could be from a 1/4 mile away at reigning down death to the evil Humans. Or .... you could have them work in teams with a shooter and realoaders and the shooter could simply move from weapon to weapon while his loaders preped them behind him. Add an arcane archer to the "fire team" and depending on how you feel about that character imbuing a weapon that they don't actually fire they could be adding more kick to the bolt. A cleric that that casts silence on the bolt has now also given you a way to hinder their spell caster who mut now dig the bolt out before they can even think about casting spells. These are any creature tactics that any one from elves to kobolds can use...... goodness knows we do. [/QUOTE]
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