Aug
17th
2020
Crossbows · 5:33pm Aug 17th, 2020
So, it’s safe to say I take waaaaay too much creative liberty with crossbows. For example, the heavy automatic crossbow. It’s a three creature crossbow, having one on the cranking mechanism, which causes the barrels to spin, another on the arrow belt, and the last one on the crossbow.
“But Hero! Isn’t that just a machine gun with arrows?”
Okay, okay, fair enough. I seem to make crossbows the Equestrian equivalent on actual firearms (i.e. the scattershot crossbow, the assault crossbow, the sidehoof, the revolving crossbow, the sub-assault crossbow, the bolt-action crossbow, etc.), even giving some of them magazines and arrow belts. Is that stupid or creative?
I'd say creative. We know that Equestrian technology hasn't developed enough for people to find many ways to include believable weapons. Using crossbows in place of guns is a great way to dance around that as the mechanics for a crossbow fit a lot more within the Equestrian technology than bullets and guns would. So I say, if the crossbow fits, use it.
5337434
Heh, well thanks
5337440
No problem
Technically the powder they use in guns originally was developed from fireworks, so they certainly have the technology to produce guns. Older models however, had a variety of flaws, so in some ways, working to improve bows might've been more technological efficient, especially for a culture which has certain kinetic advantages like telekinesis.
I myself have come up with similar concept designs for rapid loading crossbows in the past, so if it works use it.
5337444
Alright then.
Why? There were rapid-fire magazine-fed crossbows in China and even something like MLRS that uses black powder. But the rest is just silly.
5337551
True. But then again, I took some, or lot, depends on how you look at it, creative liberty.
5337555
Whether it is creative liberty depends on your genre. Comedy, satire and the rest of "low" genres have uses for such things specifically because they are silly. "High" literary genres like drama, or, William forgive me, tragedy has no place for such things because they distract and ruin the carefully balanced and connected net that you are building.
5337562
Oh, right.