Shortbow

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Name	Shortbow
Skill	Bows
Damage	9
Accuracy	+2
Base delay (%)	13
Min delay	6 at skill 14
Hands	2H
Size	Medium
Ranged?	Yes

A curved piece of wood and string, for shooting arrows. It does good damage in combat, and a skilled user can use it to great effect. "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." -Khalil Ghibran, _The Prophet_, "On Children". 1923.

This weapon falls into the 'Bows' category. It uses arrows as ammunition.

Shortbows are two-handed ranged weapons, capable of doing only modest damage but able to be fired rapidly even at low skill levels. A skilled bowman with a large enough stack of arrows can devastate opponents at range, but you'll likely want to upgrade this to a longbow as early as possible for a significant boost to damage with little loss of accuracy. Because they cannot be used while wearing a shield, hybrid fighters should consider using powerful two-handed melee weapons. You can find shortbows and ammunition on centaurs throughout the game; sometimes, they'll even be enchanted.

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History

Prior to 0.15, shortbows were simply called "bows".