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Pimp My Archer Part-II – The Bowmen

Bowmen:

The bowmen is the heavy battlefield archer. Originally bred for mass combat, the focus of the Bowmen is to put as many arrows in the air in a single round as possible. Because of their need to get off multiple shots, movement is of very little importance to them. Thus they have no problem wearing the heavier armors that Snipers & Skirmishers shy away from. Strength is just as important to a bowman as Dexterity due to the heavy pull of their larger great bows. Many armies field large units of Crossbowmen instead of Bowmen. They are much easier to train and can still put up a decent rate of fire. Fighters make the best Bowmen/Crossbowmen. They can wear the heaviest of armors and get enough feats to maximize their weapons potential.

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The long awaited arrival will hit the shelves tomorrow (tonight in some places). But even as we all wait to jump hairy feet first into Middle Earth Turbine annouces the first expansion to the game. (more…)

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I’ve been checking out the Magic Item Compendium. It’s pretty neat. Even if all these items are in other books it does help so much that they are all together. The Spell Compendium was good too but this is much more useful - at least for a DM. Here’s why… (more…)

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Guitar Hero tracks arrive on Xbox Live

Downloadable song packs offer three tunes each for 500 Microsoft Points; More songs to be made available on a monthly basis.

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot

Posted Apr 11, 2007 10:55 am PT

While it was all-but-confirmed that the songs from the original Guitar Hero would be released as downloadable content for the Xbox 360 edition of Guitar Hero II, publishers Activision and RedOctane have been tight-lipped about how they would be packaged and priced. (more…)

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