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It actually was a little hard to make up how she would react to this situation.
There are definitely people in that world that would reason this with "magic"
Not this solver though, she´s a bit more of a logically thinking individuel :D
And as you said yourself as well, it is times where there werent that muchy going on,
so the options on what the hell is going on are limited as well.
There are definitely people in that world that would reason this with "magic"
Not this solver though, she´s a bit more of a logically thinking individuel :D
And as you said yourself as well, it is times where there werent that muchy going on,
so the options on what the hell is going on are limited as well.
You can tell this one is a newbie, no really skilled assasion is going to trust there good fortune when there target dismisses the body guards and walks out into whats gotta be a nearly perfict set up to be stuck down. I mean really, that should be screaming trap before he even actualy got close to makeing the attack.
Oddly enough, that also reminds me, I need to add spurs for my yinglet char, sharp metal spikes, or blades straped to the legs, make them look decrative, and no one would realize there lethal intent tell too late.
Oddly enough, that also reminds me, I need to add spurs for my yinglet char, sharp metal spikes, or blades straped to the legs, make them look decrative, and no one would realize there lethal intent tell too late.
Not necessarily. In real life Reinhard Heydrich, a general in the SS in WW2, died when he took an open roof car on an unsecured road and assassins came for him. The assassin's gun jammed, and instead of just driving away, Heydrich ordered his driver to turn around so he could personally shoot at the assassins. Thus giving them another opportunity to kill him, which succeeded.
Apparently silver is a fairly common metal to some of the yinglet tribes (in various other comics at least). You can decorate the metal with things like polished stones. Interestingly, with their size, if a yinglet could keep their attention on it long enough, they might make good craftsmen...but...yinglets have a habit of setting themselves on fire, trying to eat themselves and other "we looked away for five minutes and he had already hit his head" behaviors
She is actually quite skilled!
A newbie solver wouldnt be able to take on a vermellion task like this :D
And this is not the first time she has done something like this.
She analyzed and weighed the situation carefully before going for the kill.
However, She "as well as nobody else" expected THIS to happen.
A newbie solver wouldnt be able to take on a vermellion task like this :D
And this is not the first time she has done something like this.
She analyzed and weighed the situation carefully before going for the kill.
However, She "as well as nobody else" expected THIS to happen.
bows can give away your position as well as identify your supplier for weapons. While a sling wouldn't give you away as easily, marksmen trained with slings essentially have to dedicate their life to its use to even have it be semi-reliable. Basically, bows and ranged weapons are typically only good in an ambush because unless you only have a single shot, they are very likely to make noise. If it were a very windy or noisy day, it might be another story. It's also a lot harder to hide a bow than it is a dagger, say if you have to slip passed border security?
- While a bow might be something you could carry, it would draw the eyes of the militia guards. Commoners are not allowed to carry weapons in the city for no reason.
- A crossbow is not something everyday assasins have acces to. Not even the more skilled ones!
It is advanced weaponry, expensive and most of all, cumbesome to carry with you :P
And again, you have the drawing-of-eyes problem.
- A sling couldnt be relied on to get the job done, even so, its a very specialized tool to train with to get good enough for it to be reliable enough to be deadly.
while everybody and their mom knows how to use a blade, and assassins even better!
The situation was a bit chaotic when the solver discovered her target, so while the solver might be proficient with other tools,
she simply didnt have the time to get any other weapon before the quarry might have gotten away.
- A crossbow is not something everyday assasins have acces to. Not even the more skilled ones!
It is advanced weaponry, expensive and most of all, cumbesome to carry with you :P
And again, you have the drawing-of-eyes problem.
- A sling couldnt be relied on to get the job done, even so, its a very specialized tool to train with to get good enough for it to be reliable enough to be deadly.
while everybody and their mom knows how to use a blade, and assassins even better!
The situation was a bit chaotic when the solver discovered her target, so while the solver might be proficient with other tools,
she simply didnt have the time to get any other weapon before the quarry might have gotten away.
With a ranged weapon your also less sure of your kill, unless you get just the right shot. Even then, at range its easyer to make a mistake and hit the wrong target. Be really bad to shoot the target, get out of there cause its a lot easyer to track an arrows flight than it is a bullets. Even with a sling, your more likely to stun or knock out your target, rather than outright kill. All you do is alert thoes around you that something is happening.
People tend to think of range kills do to movies, your allways getting thoes super insane sniper shots. Yes, there are people that make that sort of shot, and it does happen, but most murders and assasinations are up close and personal, the killer needs to make sure they hit the right target. A knife is also better for such a thing, I could walk down the street in the morning, just going with the crowd, stick a knife in someones kidney, and just keep moving on. By the time its realized the person has been stabed, I am allready gone, and done right, is very unlikely the person will servive. Try and do the same thing with a gun, and everyone starts screaming right away. Heck, look at the murder that started ww1 I think it was. An umbrella riged to fire a pellet of poison, powered by compressed air. Very close range.
People tend to think of range kills do to movies, your allways getting thoes super insane sniper shots. Yes, there are people that make that sort of shot, and it does happen, but most murders and assasinations are up close and personal, the killer needs to make sure they hit the right target. A knife is also better for such a thing, I could walk down the street in the morning, just going with the crowd, stick a knife in someones kidney, and just keep moving on. By the time its realized the person has been stabed, I am allready gone, and done right, is very unlikely the person will servive. Try and do the same thing with a gun, and everyone starts screaming right away. Heck, look at the murder that started ww1 I think it was. An umbrella riged to fire a pellet of poison, powered by compressed air. Very close range.
Actualy Sling is easier to use than people think, I have used it few times and managed to hit a target after few tries. (with healthy dose of luck)
As long as you find out the right moment to relase, it gets suprisingly easy to actualy hit something, I remember a guy who taught how to use it at historical reconstruction event saying something about human brain being wired for throwing stuff the way sling does so it works like extension of your arm.
Anyway, slingers were one of most deadly ranged troops in roman emprie, they used pieces of lead that hit with such force it was able to kill a man wearing helmet with blunt force alone.
They were eventualy replaced with archers due to longer range of bows but slings were still widely used in hunting small game and especialy favored by poachers due to ease of hiding it.
Sling can be even disgused as a belt.
And pardon me but I would clasify jinglet skull toughness as small game.
Knife may be good in a city but ranged weapon is better in most situations, especialy in situation like this with dude running across forest with a knife.
As long as you find out the right moment to relase, it gets suprisingly easy to actualy hit something, I remember a guy who taught how to use it at historical reconstruction event saying something about human brain being wired for throwing stuff the way sling does so it works like extension of your arm.
Anyway, slingers were one of most deadly ranged troops in roman emprie, they used pieces of lead that hit with such force it was able to kill a man wearing helmet with blunt force alone.
They were eventualy replaced with archers due to longer range of bows but slings were still widely used in hunting small game and especialy favored by poachers due to ease of hiding it.
Sling can be even disgused as a belt.
And pardon me but I would clasify jinglet skull toughness as small game.
Knife may be good in a city but ranged weapon is better in most situations, especialy in situation like this with dude running across forest with a knife.
That is fair!
to be honest, I didnt do reasearch into the sling itself as to give it anything else but a outside glanced judgment.
Though even with me not having given it that much credibility first-hand, I still figured that given the facts of the hasted situation,
a blade would fair better in this situation :P
But i´m glad you posted some facts to defend it, its cool :D
Oh yea! Yinglets would totally be on the lowest side of skull-hardness, though also hard to hit ( small) :D
to be honest, I didnt do reasearch into the sling itself as to give it anything else but a outside glanced judgment.
Though even with me not having given it that much credibility first-hand, I still figured that given the facts of the hasted situation,
a blade would fair better in this situation :P
But i´m glad you posted some facts to defend it, its cool :D
Oh yea! Yinglets would totally be on the lowest side of skull-hardness, though also hard to hit ( small) :D
I was doing a project on ancient roman warfare back in shool and it kinda stuck with me, lol.
People realy tend to underestimate old ranged weapons with is a shame, most of ancient warfare was not about fighting in mele like people tend to think based on tv and and clasic literature.
Most people think about roman legionaries or greek phalanx bravely fighting in epic mele but in reality 80% of fighting was about who can throw bigger pointy stick further away, skirmisher fights could last for hours and in few cases even few days if terrain favored hit and run tactics or none of the sides were sure to win decisive engagement.
Anyway never underestimate things like bows and slings, standard training range for slingers was about 80-100 metres with slingers being expected to hit hand sized target while maximum range slinger can shoot is almost 400metres! Tho damage to armored targets at long ranges above 100-150m drops sharply.
Bows get even more deadly with longest ranges reaching over half kilometre for military longbows, and standard training range during english longbowmen era was 200metres with target size of two hands, shooting heavy arrows that could pierce plate armor when hitting straight on.
Asasins would rather want something smaller like mongol recurve bow that could be carried on belt on back and hidden under cloak while still being more than capable of piercing lighter chainmails at 200metre range.
And finaly crosbows that people do massive injustice thinking about monstrous siege crossbows with 1 kilometre range and forgeting about much lighter hand loaded ones.
If I was going for rat hunting I would pick cavalry crossbow, rather small about one arm long, easly hidden under cloak(with made crossbows banned in Germany as rioters found out that riot gear is not so good aganist crossbow bolts and crosbows are easly hidden under clothes) and capable of killing lightly armore targets up to 200metres while being bloody easy to aim and can be wiped out in split second and fired.
People realy tend to underestimate old ranged weapons with is a shame, most of ancient warfare was not about fighting in mele like people tend to think based on tv and and clasic literature.
Most people think about roman legionaries or greek phalanx bravely fighting in epic mele but in reality 80% of fighting was about who can throw bigger pointy stick further away, skirmisher fights could last for hours and in few cases even few days if terrain favored hit and run tactics or none of the sides were sure to win decisive engagement.
Anyway never underestimate things like bows and slings, standard training range for slingers was about 80-100 metres with slingers being expected to hit hand sized target while maximum range slinger can shoot is almost 400metres! Tho damage to armored targets at long ranges above 100-150m drops sharply.
Bows get even more deadly with longest ranges reaching over half kilometre for military longbows, and standard training range during english longbowmen era was 200metres with target size of two hands, shooting heavy arrows that could pierce plate armor when hitting straight on.
Asasins would rather want something smaller like mongol recurve bow that could be carried on belt on back and hidden under cloak while still being more than capable of piercing lighter chainmails at 200metre range.
And finaly crosbows that people do massive injustice thinking about monstrous siege crossbows with 1 kilometre range and forgeting about much lighter hand loaded ones.
If I was going for rat hunting I would pick cavalry crossbow, rather small about one arm long, easly hidden under cloak(with made crossbows banned in Germany as rioters found out that riot gear is not so good aganist crossbow bolts and crosbows are easly hidden under clothes) and capable of killing lightly armore targets up to 200metres while being bloody easy to aim and can be wiped out in split second and fired.
And when lethality is concerned, a simple mixture of feces and rotten meat to dip your bolts on before shooting will ensure festering wound and gangrene.
If it hits a limb it can be amputated so try to hit a torso and there is nothing that can be done without powerfull antibiotics. Or magic.
This is what actual assasins used in ancient times to make sure target dies be it for daggers or ranged weapons as long as it pierces skin you dead.
If it hits a limb it can be amputated so try to hit a torso and there is nothing that can be done without powerfull antibiotics. Or magic.
This is what actual assasins used in ancient times to make sure target dies be it for daggers or ranged weapons as long as it pierces skin you dead.
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