Lampshaded a bit in the end of Guards! The protagonists storm the palace to catch the villain, and when the gate is locked, Captain Vimes, drunk on authority and briefly forgetting he's only acting like Dirty Harry, orders Sergeant Colon to " shoot it open!
In Going Postal , Moist, on several occasions, finds himself staring down the barrel of Miss Dearheart's In David Gemmell 's Drenai novels, the anti-heroic assassin Waylander the Slayer used a weapon normally referred to as a "double crossbow" — effectively two small crossbows stuck one on top of the other, allowing two shots without reloading.
The second shot often takes people by surprise, which is handy because he's a mediocre swordsman. Dungeon Crawler Carl : A magical crossbow was awarded to Hekla early in the crawl, and forms the basis of her party, " Brynhild's Daughters ".
It comes with just one bolt, but that bolt can be fired unlimited times , and the more women join her party, the faster and stronger it gets, until it's almost a continuous stream of bolts. Unfortunately, the Daughters relied too heavily on it , and when Hekla is killed and the crossbow looted, the party falls apart.
This item is a master-crafted, Magitek weapon that uses power stones. While there's charge in the stones, the weapons will automatically reload and cock after each trigger pull. The weapon carries a magazine of pencil-sized crossbolts that are all enchanted with a single-use offensive spell cast by Namji.
In a world where Magitek guns are commonplace, her crossbow gives her firepower that often outclasses enemy firearms. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms , Zhuge Liang is credited with inventing these, although they aren't used until after his death because of problems of implementation. The introduction of this type of crossbow gives Mat a serious advantage in The Wheel of Time series. They are used realistically, noting how they lack the range, accuracy, and power of longbows and traditional crossbows, but make up for it through sheer numbers.
It also points out that anyone can use them with minimal training, making them ideal for irregular forces. Live Action TV. It worked better than they expected. The MythBusters actually made one. It tended to jam often, but it worked.
A large problem with the jamming turned out to be just how it was fired. With the right cranking technique, it worked fairly well. When Scrapheap Challenge did an episode on repeater bows, they showed a full-size but down-powered model of an original Chinese design dating to AD. It essentially had an ammo hopper on top which was gravity-fed, and a wheel on the side that pulled the string back once with each rotation.
It could fire pretty much as fast as you could turn the wheel, getting through maybe 40 shots per minute. This crossbow was one of the weapons improved upon on the Military Channel show Weapon Masters. Chad made a pneumatic steel-framed crossbow that was deadly accurate and powerful at all ranges tested, and could quickly reload itself in seconds from a top-mounted magazine.
It fired repeatedly, quickly, penetrated an impressive assortment of materials, and didn't jam or fail once. Tabletop Games. In D20 rpg Dark Legacies , there are standard automatic crossbows out of Dungeons and Dragons, but also there are even more advanced assault crossbows, which are automatic crossbows with an ammo belt to create a constant rate of fire.
And a certain class can further mount these assault crossbows on a steam-powered armour and then improve the crossbow with things such as flywheels, high-tension strings and etc. Note that in most fantasy worlds, these assault crossbows would be the highest level of technology. But in Dark Legacies , it's set in our world in the post-apocalypse, demon-haunted far future, so the assault crossbows and other tech is a big step down. The next shot is readied by pulling a lever.
A spoof article in Dragon , "Gangsters of the Underdark", featured an automatic crossbow powered by a handcrank, known as the Torque-Operated Mauling Machine, or T. In fifth edition the "loading" property means that a crossbow can "only" be fired every 6 seconds, while the character is still freely moving and potentially taking other actions as well. The Crossbow Expert feat take it Up to Eleven , allowing a character to ignore the "loading" trait. As a result a high level fighter could loose a total of 9 bolts in that same 6 second span.
According to the Dragon Mystara series Voyages of the Princess Ark , in Cimmeron County a dwarven blacksmith named Smithy and a halfling jeweller named Westron developed a repeating pistol crossbow, with an intricate mechanism that let it hold six darts, giving the Fantasy Counterpart Culture Wild West a six-shooter without abandoning Fantasy Gun Control.
Later resources regarding the area said Smithy and Westron had eventually invented an actual pistol. The dwarves in the Swedish RPG Eon invented the Krell-Spaz, a semi-automatic, pump-action crossbow, as well as its derivatives, the Krell-Hon, the Krell-Hon-Spaz, and the Krell-Khan-Hon-Spaz, the last of which is sadly not a viable option in regular combat as it's actually a siege weapon weighing in at almost lbs. The Mountain Folk have a version that can fire crystalline bolts with such speed that it's basically an assault rifle.
For bonus points, it can fire flechette rounds. The Discworld Roleplaying Game also has a repeating crossbow that is unreliable but still popular in the Brown Islands, if only for the impressive noise it makes in use.
Steamlogic's Mechanical Dreams has repeating crossbows. The most basic versions can store 3 bolts while the best quality ones can hold 12 bolt. Then there's the Arrow Rotary, this is a drum-fed automatic crossbow that can hold arrows and will continuously shoot so long as the trigger is pressed.
Munchkin Fu has a repeating crossbow. The Pathfinder gunslinger archetype, the Bolt Ace, is used for settings where the early firearms of Golarion are not commonplace. It allows the normally slow-to-reload crossbows to act as firearms from an action movie.
One class ability, Inexplicable Reload, acknowledges the absurdity of a crossbow reloading as quickly as it does — as many as six shots or more in six seconds for a sufficiently advanced character. Dark Elves in Warhammer use repeating crossbows as their standard ranged weapon. On top of that, both they and the High Elves have repeating Bolt Throwers ballistas as their primary war machines.
In the Rogue Trader era of Warhammer 40, , the shuriken catapult actually used a crossbow design for its body and the gravity impellers on it was the bow. Video Games.
Despite having shorter range, it could fire several bolts at once. Age of Empires III has them too. Again, they're weaker than European crossbows, but they fire three times in rapid succession, they're cheap, and when you build them, you also get melee units to protect them. The PC RPG Albion tells the story of an Earth astronaut who crash lands on an alien planet that's part alien jungle and part fantasy land.
The local civilization hasn't developed guns, but later in the game repeating Automatic Crossbows referred to as bolt guns become available as weapons. In Baldur's Gate , most crossbows hit hard but have a low rate of fire. Coupled with the relative scarcity of their ammunition note every bandit or kobold has a full quiver of arrows, but bolts must generally be bought in shops this makes them inferior to handbows. Not so with "The Army Scythe", a magical crossbow that fires faster than most handbows and has according to the Flavor Text been used to carve out a small kingdom in the past.
The only drawback is that you go though bolts even faster than before. Emperor Zemeckis of Esgares Empire from Brigandine wields a big crossbow called 'Tempest Bow', where he can call out lightning to enhance its bolts. In the vanilla game, he can shoot while moving, but in Grand Edition , he cannot move and shoot.
The Orc monsters in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness have these. While not stronger then a normal crossbow, it has the added advantage of causing collateral damage to a stack of units. They return in V. Here, the Cho-Ku-Nu is actually weaker than the normal crossbow but can fire two times per turn. In the s, light-gun shooter Crossbow an arcade game from Exidy had you protect a hapless group of adventurers from incoming monsters with a rapid-fire crossbow. The Avelyn in Dark Souls fires three crossbow bolts in rapid succession, and is reloaded all at once.
Unlike many other depictions of automatic crossbows, the Avelyn has three separate bowstrings instead of a single string with a magazine of bolts, but how exactly it is loaded is unclear. One of the weapons that the protagonist in Dark Watch can use is a crossbow that can hold several bolts in a clip.
Also, each bolt is tipped with explosives - even if Jericho misses, he could still kill the target. In Dawn of War II: Retribution's Imperial Guard campaign, one possible upgrade for Inquisitor Adrastia is a hand crossbow that can fire explosive-tipped, armor-piercing quarrels either singly or in spreads. Fox N Forests : Rick 's crossbow can fire bolts one after the other in unrealistically quick precision for a crossbow.
Gauntlet -clone, Demon Stalkers: The Raid on Doomfane had your heroes rip into the forces of evil with rapid-fire crossbows. Deus Ex has miniature automatic crossbows that are loaded with box-shaped magazines of darts, and strapped to the back of the wrist.
The Rapid Fire skill lets them fire like fully automatic machine guns, even from an old-fashioned bow and arrow. In Dishonored , you can purchase a fast reloading device, which takes only a fraction of a second to reload your crossbow. However, even without this device, it still takes only about a second and a half to reload it; and you can reload one-handed. It is unique because it is actually a product of two genius engineers who worked on it at different times, and because Varric had to kill one of them later, while publicly giving him full credit for its creation to protect the other one's his Old Flame after whom the crossbow is named identity from the underworld powers that really want to obtain the secret of its manufacture.
Officially its creation was a fluke that couldn't be reproduced; in reality, they just don't want to. The creators concluded this would achieve nothing but higher body counts.
In Dragon's Crown , the common Crossbow weapon your characters could pick has a firing rate as fast as the player's trigger finger. There's also the semi-rare Cranequin crossbow, which has a slightly slower rate of fire but comes with a Spread Shot. In Dragon Nest , the Archer's crossbow acts for all intents and purposes like a three-round burst submachine gun.
Dragon Saga implements this trope in an odd way. The crossbows of the Ranger classes fire slower than the huge bows used by their Hunter counterparts but deal more damage. They have the same firing rate in shared skills but discard the crossbow in their class-specific skills and switch to a ridiculous array of firearms and explosives. Dungeon Defenders has several examples, most of which can be upgraded to fire even faster.
Dungeon Fighter Online features the Gunner class, who can use this type of weapon. Like all the other gun types, he holds one in each hand. In Dungeon Siege : Throne of Agony , crossbows are all automatic, and only slightly slower than regular bows. They are apparently fired by yarding on a firing crank. Dwarf Fortress used to have bows and crossbows that fired absurdly fast; a dwarf who really leveled up the relevant skill could fire off seven or eight bolts before the first one hit.
This was extremely Cool, but Inefficient , as ranged weapons were also somewhat overpowered at the time and the odds were good that the first arrow or bolt had scored a One-Hit Kill , so the remainder were wasted. The problem has since been fixed by not allowing units to lose a second shot until the first has landed.
All that being said, however, actual rates of fire are slightly difficult to determine, as Dwarf Fortress is a rather extreme example of Video Game Time. Maybe with a little nod tuned Up to Eleven to the Chinese chu-ko-nu in the Real Life section below, Dynasty Warriors 7 players have access to highly-accurate ballistas in some missions.
Its gatling goodness and never-miss accuracy make for some easy army leveling. In the same game Lianshi has a normal crossbow as her signature weapon. It functions more like a shotgun than a machine gun, though she never really has to worry about reloading it. The eighth game takes this to a ludicrous extent with the Downloadable Content "Revolving Crossbow", which is basically a portable gatling cannon that fires arrows.
Similarly, the third Samurai Warriors game introduces Motonari Mori, who uses a wrist-mounted version of this that he can even stab people with. Crossbow-units have to reload after each shot, taking several seconds - and Heavy Crossbows take even longer since they have to use a hand-crank to do so.
Of course, this makes them rather less than practical to actually USE, especially if you don't have some allied units around to run interference while you're busy reloading In Endless Legend , the comparatively high-tech Vaulters use magazine-fed crossbows as their standard infantry weapon. The repeating crossbow saw its last serious action as late as the China-Japan war of — , where photographs show repeating crossbows as common weapons among Qing Dynasty troops.
The repeating crossbow was introduced into Korea by King Sejong — , who during a trip to China saw the weapon and was impressed by its mechanism. A more complex repeating ballista was described in the works of the Greek engineer Philon of Byzantium. This siege engine was called a Polybolos and was reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria in the 3rd century BC.
Two flat-linked chains were connected to a windlass , which by winding back and forth would automatically fire the machine's arrows until its magazine was empty. The machine features the earliest recorded chain drive in the history of technology.
The small and light arrow of the comparatively weak Chinese crossbow had little penetrative power. For this reason the head of the arrow was sometimes dipped in poison, in order that a slight wound might prove fatal. Military Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Perhaps one of the most famous and long-lived of Chinese weapons, the repeating crossbow dates back from the 4th century B. Its basic design has remained relatively unchanged until it fell out of use around in the early 20th century.
The Chinese crossbow nu with its horizontal bow and short wooden stock fired single or multiple bronze -headed arrows. The arrows had wooden shafts and feathered, wooden or paper vanes for stability in their trajectory. The crossbow was a major factor in the success of the Chinese states against foreign armies and in establishing the dominance of the Han and Sung empires, in particular.
Use of this weapon required training from youth and large amounts of brute strength to pull back the pound bow! All of that changed when the Chinese developed the magnificent crossbow. Through its simplicity and power it changed the art of warfare forever. Exactly when and who invented the crossbow is up for debate.
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