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[Jackrabbit]

Got past the title? good. I have a problem. I just watched my legendary marksdwarf loose an entire quiver in all of 5 seconds. By the time the second hit the goblin it was clear it wasn't coming out for another round, it being hard to do so with no head. So my problem is this

• Stop firing when the enemy gains a mortal wound. - You hit him in the chest dude. Twice. stop shooting him now. Your scaring me.
• Champions fire at an astounding rate. We all know that and from what I have seen, accepted that. However, It negates the effect of a legendary champion if all he can kill is one goblin after loosing enough bolts to put Van Helsing to shame. They should fire a maximum of five bolts at one enemy and should be clever enough to move on when they tear of a limb.

Why should my trained marksdwarf have only 3 kills to his name after 5 sieges? Why does Urist McCrapshoot have 8? Granted, they were chained up and unmoving but thats beside the point. Champions should not waste so many bolts on one guy and others should not continue shooting after the enemy acquires a wound it would obviously not recover from.

[Granite26]

good archers firing ballistically can have 2-3 shots in the air before the first lands...  Not that we're dealing with ballistic shots...

[morikal]

good archers firing ballistically can have 2-3 shots in the air before the first lands...  Not that we're dealing with ballistic shots...

Yeah, crossbows are much slower

[Warlord255]

For the purposes of relative sanity and reducing the (arguably) overpowered nature of crossbows as they currently stand, I would be in favor of reducing crossbow firing rates to a reasonable level.

I suspect that with the greater army controls Toady's currently working on, "ignore the wounded/crippled" will be a toggle option.