Greatbow

== Acquisition ==
Great bows can also be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following raider kinds:
Raider Kind 	Chance	Average Quality	Health
Heavy archer	42.22%	Normal 	50-180%
Archer chief	93.25%	Normal 	100%
== Analysis ==
The greatbow is the most powerful pre-industrial ranged weapon. Roughly on par with weak firearms like autopistols and revolvers, it is rapidly outclassed by most other guns. Due to the research required, crafting greatbows is usually not a great idea. However, a greatbow obtained from other means, such as by loot, quest, event, or by trade, can be useful in the early game.
As a weapon, the greatbow dominates all ranged weapons for its tech level. For a bow, it has great accuracy and range. While the is worse than even a short bow, the damage easily makes up for it. With the highest range before bolt-action rifles and a relatively short cooldown, the greatbow is ideal for both preventing, and escaping from, hunted animals going manhunter. It's worth noting that the greatbow has a longer warmup than cooldown, which is reversed for the other two bows. This synergizes well with Aiming Time reductions.
* Compared to a recurve bow of the same quality, the greatbow has overall better damage and range. A recurve bow one or two quality levels above can have better at the short-medium range though.
* Compared to autopistols and revolvers, the greatbow is more accurate from a distance, and has higher max range. However, both handguns outdamage the greatbow up close.
* The greatbow is actually very similar in role to the bolt-action rifle, just with worse stats. A bolt-action rifle has better , range, long-range accuracy as a greatbow of the same quality.
The main issue of this weapon is the research required - greatbows are a dead-end project, and greatbows themselves are quickly outclassed by guns that can be looted and crafted early. Therefore, actually doing the research is often a waste of time. Should you find or craft a particularly high quality greatbow, however, it can remain competitive in the early game. The main advantage of greatbows is their cost, not using any components or steel that could be otherwise spent on other options.
=== Quality comparisons ===
High quality greatbows can occasionally be obtained as a quest reward. Particularly high quality greatbows can be better than many types of guns.
* A masterwork greatbow beats an excellent (and lower) bolt-action rifle at any range the bow can reach, though its and max range are still shorter.
* Up close (12 tiles), a greatbow 1 quality level higher generally beats a bolt action, e.g. good greatbow > normal bolt-action. The one exception is that an excellent greatbow is still inferior to a good bolt action rifle. 
* At medium (25 tile) range and beyond, an excellent greatbow is outperformed by a poor bolt-action.
=== Stats ===
Against an unarmored human, a greatbow can kill with 3 hits to the torso, 2 hits to the head or neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 2 hits; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 4 hits (~19.5 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock. 
== Version history ==
* 0.3.410 - Added
* At some point between Beta 18 and 1.2 it was nerfed. Accuracy was decreased from Touch accuracy was changed from 93% to 65%, range was decreased from 32 to 30 and damage from 18 to 17. It was also increased in weight from 1.2 to 3.0.
* 1.5.4062 - Received a new texture.
GreatBow Old.png|Texture prior to 1.5
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