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Heavy repeating crossbow

The Repeating heavy crossbow is sluggish, heavy as heck and with it you ain't going to be carrying around anything else, like the archbalest, it is not exactly meant to e carried around and fired without being braced, much less on the move, even if its possible for particularly stocky ponies. Its just not what its for. Of-course the offset is with that weight you can still use the butt of it as a make-shift mace when engaged in close-combat! In addition, this weapon is mag/rail loaded - an opening for a magazine is set on the middle most part of the weapon's body to load the bolts which, with the help of a handy lever on the opposite side close to the stock and small gears, are loaded right into the crossbow and then shot like a LMG, the mag, or rail, slides towards the opposite opening once the bolt has been fired carrying in the next one and then either falls off or is manually removed in favor of one that is loaded

Class: Ranged/Exotic
Damage: 1d10 Piercing to 3d10/5d10 or 1d10 bludgeoning
Reach: 37 meters

Weight: 6.5 BL
Hands: 2
Special: Mag loaded, Big gun.

Mag loaded = As a full round action, the user can fire up to 4 bolts (or less) (or as an alternative fire 1 shot per +4 RAB the character has) in the same turn with a -2 penalty to RAB. The user can choose to target more than one enemy, if one is present, but said enemy must be no more than 3 meters from the one being targeted. Note that firing a barrage is a full round action, you can't make precise strikes, but you may call as many shots as you want as long as you can put up with the penalty. Reloading the next bolt in the mag is a swift action, while reloading the whole mag is a move action.

Big gun = This weapon is BIG as well as heavy. Firing it with one hoof is possible but you take a -6 penalty to RAB due to its size and weight when shooting it, OR, a -4 when shooting it two handed without bracing the weapon on even ground. Once the weapon is braced however, shots made with this weapon gain a bonus of +2 to RAB.

Creator notes:

The heavy repeating crossbow shares many similarities with a modern LMG kind of weapon. Made of wood, string and metal components. It is big, bulky and not very portable but very powerful and, usually, has a lot of bolts to fire especially when set to a position. It is usually braced with a small metal bipod, or used as a immobile weapon platform set on watch towers, bastion citadels and gatehouses. equipped with a bolt rail, and a lever on one side to pull, to feed bolt after bolt into the weapon for continuous semi-automatic fire which can give it almost 15 bolts almost the length of your forearm to fire, the effect of said bolt onto a person is pretty devastating, it can pierce most metal armors aside from the heavier steel armors. The belt feed is connected and secured on the side of the weapon where there is a small opening that allows bolts to slide into the chamber after the lever which pulls the string is pulled.

When carried around in the battlefield it is usually operated by two ponies, one cares for the ammo, the rail and reloading when needed, while the other fires the weapon. OR it can be used by one pony and have a cartridge of 3-4 installed onto its side instead of the rail. Pulling the lever to reload the next shot is a swift action but reloading the whole cartridge is a move action, or in the case of a bolt rail, a full round action.


Light repeating crossbow

Medieval equivalent of a battle rifle, the repeating crossbow is reliable, versatile and, unlike its heavier version, easily portable if still rather heavy to carry. Before the age of firearms and after the age of swashbuckling sword, bow and crossbow, weapons like these were top of the line equipment. Perfectly capable of being used in both sieges and skirmishes due to them being much, much faster to reload than the old one shot crossbow, even if they fell a bit lower in the 'potency' side. The repeating crossbow is reloaded via small cartridge attached to one side of the crossbow's mid section, when the crossbow is fired the user pulls a crank downwards, attached to the opposite side near the stock, which both pulls the string and opens the feed keeping the bolts from falling inside all at once and, with a deft side flick of the weapon, loads it fully again in the span of barely a second. Of course this came at the cost of simplicity, added weight compared to the old one shot crossbow and, like all crossbow, cannot be fired easily one hoofed due to it being manually reloaded. Of course, there are modernized versions which reload automatically much in the same way a gun does now.

Class: Ranged/Exotic
Damage: 1d6 to 4d6
Reach: 30

Weight: 3.5 BL
Hands: 2
Special: Mag loaded