Best bow in Warband ?

[Thedragonslayer]

Which bow do you think as the best in the game ?

I personally like Khergit bow because its efficiency in battle field, and isn't too expensive for me.
So choose your best bow and give me the reason !!!!

Note : You can choose 2 if you want.... 

 

[Felonious]

I love the Khergit Bow, it's fast, accurate and packs a nice punch. Although it is underpowered compared to it's real life counterpart. The Mongolian curved bows had a draw power of 1600 Newtons (About the force required to lift two full grown men), which is much greater than the English longbow. It was also more compact, making it more manoeuvre-able and faster to fire.

The secret to it's strength was that the inner curves were layered with horn (which resists compression) and the outer curves were layered with ligaments (which resist expansion).

 

[Charlie Brooker]

Masterwork Nomad Bow.

Same damage as a war bow, same attack speed as ALMIGHTY GOD! D:< Kinda cheap too.

 

[TheWatcher]

Masterwork War Bow.
It's all about one-shotting them dude

 

[placenik]

Masterwork hunting bow (can't beat PD requirement 0 for 20 damage) in the beggining and masterwork war bow at the end of game 

 

[Mixedpotatoes]

Hunting bow: somewhat useless, good speed
Short bow: Same, but more damage
Nomad bow: Decent damage, good speed
Khergit bow: More damage, bit less speed
Strong bow: Even more damage, but perhaps a bit slow for horse archery and arrowspam
Longbow: Good damage, but very slow
Warbow: Awesome damage, somewhat slow

 

[Maksim125]

I like the long bow its very accurate so I can snipe from the distance.

 

[Mallissin]

Masterwork hunting bow (can't beat PD requirement 0 for 20 damage) in the beggining and masterwork war bow at the end of game 

I thought this was great too until I realize there's no power draw bonus, so why bother?

I generally give archery companions Nomad bows, but I'll use a Strong bow myself.

 

[Felonious]

Masterwork War Bow.
It's all about one-shotting them dude

Any bow can kill in one shot if you aim for the head, and the Masterwork War Bow's power draw requirement is so high that it becomes highly inaccurate until you have 200+ Proficiency (even with 10 powerdraw), it's a good late-game weapon but useless for anyone with less than 10 powerdraw and a high archery proficiency (assuming they're a horse archer, otherwise they might be able to get away with lower stats).

 

[TheWatcher]

My Archery proficiency is soon reaching 500, and I'm stuck at power draw 9 for 2 more levels

It's quiet accurate for me, you just have to learn to use it... since I mostly fought against rapid riding zerg of khergits, I had to. ^^

 

[artifex]

Give me a masterwork khergit bow or a longbow.

 

[stormcricket]

I was using the strong bow for quite a while even when my power draw was high enough to upgrade, mainly for aesthetics, it seemed to be an improved khergit/nomad bow and the compact size just seemed to suit horse archery.
I have however upgraded to the war bow and I am liking that a whole lot.
Its mainly the improved damage over the strong bow while looking almost like a samurai bow so not too out of place.

I was going to upload  some screen shots for the archery tournament thread, as I thought my power draw 5 character would have a chance.
I remembered to take a screenshot of a difficulty 12.0 shot as well as my 106 point headshot, but the cheap a$$ thumb drive I have wasnt recognising the jpeg format.
Oh well I will have to upload them from home, oh and both shots were taken from horseback but then I notice the spoilers I have seen are also the same.

 

[CriticallyAshamed]

I have a thing for the Long and War bows. They just seem really badass. Particularly when Sea Raiders use them.

 

[Zaakjes]

I prefer the nomad bow. Great stuff.

 

[Jock]

Give me a masterwork khergit bow or a longbow.

Go buy it yourself...

 

[Thatsun]

all the same...

 

[unknown3056]

I prefer light crossbows, but if it's a bow we are talking about, then the long bow. Since it is decent at the beginning of the game.

 

[Jock]

I prefer light crossbows, but if it's a bow we are talking about, then the long bow. Since it is decent at the beginning of the game.

Why Light Crossbow? Is it faster than Siege one?

 

[unknown3056]

I prefer light crossbows, but if it's a bow we are talking about, then the long bow. Since it is decent at the beginning of the game.

Why Light Crossbow? Is it faster than Siege one?

Horseback

 

[Temuçin]

I almost always use Nomad Bow, since I am not a good archer and I usually spam arrows and nomad bow is fast and does pretty fine damage.