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Paperblade	Mar 29 2008, 10:16 PM
Posts: 76 Group: FEFFer Member #1,424 Joined: August 10, 2007	Hunter-Ghor Mar 29 2008, 01:11 PM Quote: Crossbow's advantage is that it can attack at 2 range, and therefore not get countered. However, I can simply use a 2-range weapon on player phase, and then have someone trade to a 1-range weapon. It's a pretty minor advantage at best. Crossbow's other, totally insignificant advantage is that Nolan has 84 Atk with it against beasts. For comparison, Zihark has ~55 with the Storm Sword (can you even get that then?), and most characters will be even worse. There's a Storm Sword in the Bargains at 3-6, and another in 3-13, and the difference between OHKOing and 2HKOing when you double everything with 1-2 range and everything else is 1 range is. . . rather small. Considering that Zihark doesn't eat a counter at 2 range, 2 hits to kill don't matter since they never attack. On enemy phase when they attack, they attack first anyway, so 1 hit vs. 2 isn't important either. I suppose there's always the fact that Nolan could attack at 1 range and still not eat a counter if he wanted to for whatever reason, but I honestly can't think of a situation where not taking that counter would really make a difference. I mean, maybe if you're gonna guard a 2 space wide ledge and other people need heals because they're gonna die on the enemy phase if they don't and they can't afford to use a Vulnerary/Concoction for whatever reason, so you're gonna move Nolan/Zihark to the empty spot and kill a Laguz to open the spot up, but they can't afford to take the counter because they'd die if hit and opening the spot means that another unit can move their and block the gap. But the chances of that many units being that close to death is pretty unlikely.


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