(10-06-2013, 02:52 PM)Arlas Wrote: Bows just don't even compare to guns from a military standpoint, so I can't see them in use at all. Bows take intensive training to be useful, and even then. It's much easier to train people en mass to use guns.
That said.... I want a sniper rifle for one of my characters. 8[ But I can't wait until we get our hands on any kind of fire arm.
...and yet they are used - fairly frequently - by many Garlean troops. Nor are they suddenly less useful just because guns also exist in the setting. A military that employs numerous different fighting styles and weaponry is generally more efficient than one that relies solely upon one.
This happens in the real world, too. No matter how advanced technology gets there's still a slim chance something will go wrong. You might be disarmed, run out of bullets or the weapon might not work correctly. That's one of the reasons as to why soldiers carry combat knives on their person and I can see something similar being a rule of thumb for the Garleans.
