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Gard's Bullets

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Con:
Come to think of it why does it necessarily have to be a bullet. What about the Crossbow that killed King Richard the Lionheart.

Avernite:
Close analogue could be the cannonball that took out Michiel de Ruyter, but obviously that'd be a bit big for a gun.

Charles XII died during a siege from a 'projectile' according to wiki.

The stone David threw (swung? slinged?) to take out Goliath.

There's the arrow that took Harold out at Hastings (debated if it was through the eye or if that's just Norman propaganda).

Arjan:

--- Quote from: Avernite on December 27, 2018, 10:36:55 AM ---Close analogue could be the cannonball that took out Michiel de Ruyter, but obviously that'd be a bit big for a gun.

Charles XII died during a siege from a 'projectile' according to wiki.

The stone David threw (swung? slinged?) to take out Goliath.

There's the arrow that took Harold out at Hastings (debated if it was through the eye or if that's just Norman propaganda).

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When there are a lot of arrows flying around most of them will do minimal damage because of shields and armor but there are always a few that find weak spots. You have to look around so your eye will always be a weak spot. It is not like someone had one arrow, aimed and got Harald in the eye. Bad luck really but something that can happen.

Avernite:

--- Quote from: Arjan on December 27, 2018, 01:36:15 PM ---When there are a lot of arrows flying around most of them will do minimal damage because of shields and armor but there are always a few that find weak spots. You have to look around so your eye will always be a weak spot. It is not like someone had one arrow, aimed and got Harald in the eye. Bad luck really but something that can happen.

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It can happen, sure, but it's still widely debated whether he really got shot in the eye, or if this was later myth-forming and he just died to a lance or hacked to bits or whatever.

Arjan:
What we really need is the rooftile that killed king Pyrrhus of Epirus:

"While he was fighting an Argive soldier, the soldier's old mother, who was watching from a rooftop, threw a tile which knocked him from his horse and broke part of his spine, paralyzing him. Whether he was alive or not after the blow is unknown, but his death was assured when a Macedonian soldier named Zopyrus, though frightened by the look on the face of the unconscious king, hesitantly and ineptly beheaded his motionless body."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhus_of_Epirus#Last_wars_and_death

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