Crossbow Game stats - repeated

 Crossbow Game stats - repeated

Standard Crossbows

Weapon Name	Strength Required	Skill Level	Damage	Shield Damage	Rate of fire	Weapon Size	Max range	Damage type
Pistol *	4	low	1d8p	1	5s	S	120	Punching
Latch	4	low	2d4p	1	10s	M	150	Punching
Light Crossbow	6**	low	2d6p	1	20s	M	180	Punching
Medium Crossbow	8**	low	2d8p	1	20s	M	220	Punching
Heavy Crossbow	10***	low	2d10p	1	60s	L	250	Punching 1
Arbalest	15***	low	2d12p	1	90s	L	250	Punching 2

* Can be fired one handed at an accuracy penalty of -2

** required strength -2 with a leaver but +5s to RoF or -4 required with a winder but +10s to RoF

*** required strength -3 with a winder but +20s to RoF

¹ DR of Heavy or natural armour of DR5+ is at penalty of -1

² DR of Heavy or natural armour of DR5+ is at penalty of -2

Note Medium or heavier crossbows will generally go straight though shields doing very little damage to the shield itself  but suffering a decrease of damage equal to twice the shields DR should they subsequently hit the bearer of the shield.

Double crossbows

Weapon Name	Strength Required	Skill Level	Damage	Shield Damage	Rate of fire *	Weapon Size	Max range	Damage type
Latch	5	low	2d4p	1	1s/30s	M	150	Punching
Light Crossbow	7**	low	2d6p	1	1s/50s	M	180	Punching
Medium Crossbow	9**	low	2d8p	1	1s/50s	M	220	Punching
Heavy Crossbow	12***	low	2d10p	1	1s/100s	L	250	Punching 1

* Rate of fire Loaded/unloaded, Loaded which is for two shots and the unloaded is to reload and draw both spans if you only want to reload & draw one for speed you naturally use the least fiddly to do which is the top one and the reload time to do that is the same as a single crossbow of the same power.

**  required strength -2 with a leaver but +5s to RoF or -4 required with a winder but +10s to RoF

*** required strength -3 with a winder but +20s to RoF

¹ DR of Heavy or natural armour of DR5+ is at penalty of -1

Repeating crossbows

Weapon Name	Strength Required	Skill Level	Damage	Shield Damage	Rate of fire *	Magazine size	Weapon Size	Max range	Damage type
Latch	8	Low	2d4p	1	8s/50s	6	L	150	Punching
Light Crossbow	10**	Low	2d6p	1	10s/60s	5	L	180	Punching
Medium Crossbow	12**	Low	2d8p	1	15s/75s	4	L	220	Punching
Heavy Crossbow	14**	Low	2d10p	1	20s/80s	4	L	250	Punching 1

* The first figure in the RoF column is the rate firing from the magazine where you are just drawing & feeding a new bolt the second is to reload the magazine completely and draw the bow for the first shot. NB in the manner of bolt action rifles it’s quite possible to have “one up the spout” so adding one to the effective magazine capacity

** Assumes the use of a built in leaver system as the various winder systems are unsuitable to both draw the span and cycle the magazine to reload

More exotic stuff to follow