#Archery·Gunnery School Expansion (弓術·銃術 流派) — Section Index
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#Identity
In addition to the core 4 bow/gun schools (Ogasawara, Gassen, Inatomi, Nanban), this adds ranged-weapon schools from various cultures. All ranged shooting is the single Archery skill (covering bow and matchlock) — technique sharing between bow and gun is easy.
#Design Goals
- At least 6, at most 8 new ranged schools.
- A mix of school types:
- famous schools 2~3 (Hisagitani-ryu, Joseon horn-bow art, Dutch gun-drill method)
- Secret Transmission 1 (forest-sniper secret transmission)
- Self-Taught Style 1 (gaijin self-taught sniping)
- foreign styles 3~4 (Mongol mounted bow, English longbow, Dutch gun, Turkish composite bow)
- Some schools support both mounted and on-foot situations. Linked with 15-horse-schools (mounted Archery).
#§ This Section's File List
ex2-12-01-new-schools.md— 8 new Archery·Gunnery schools
#Reference Documents
Core required:
- Schools (流派)
- School Data (流派資料) — #7·8·16·17 (Ogasawara, Gassen, Inatomi, Nanban)
- Skill List (技能目錄) — Archery skill (covering bow and matchlock)
1st expansion (format reference):
Within this expansion:
- New Horsemanship Schools (馬術流派 新設) — Section Index — mounted-Archery linkage
- Cross-Cultural School Index (汎文化 流派 索引) — Section Index
- Props (小品) — Section Index — gun/bow equipment props
#§ Scent — The Same Target, A Different Bow
Just before Sekigahara, on a plain, two archers met.
One had come from Sherwood in England — a surviving yeoman who, after his own village vanished near the end of the Hundred Years' War, drifted to the East. A 1.8-metre longbow. The bowstave was as tall as he was, and the range of one shot reached to the edge of the plain.
The other was a Japanese yabusame Master — a retainer of the Tokugawa. A short bow. A bow shot from horseback. The range was short, but he matched the horse's breath to the bow's breath.
The two looked at each other's bows. Neither greeted the other first.
The Englishman raised his longbow. He pointed precisely at one point on a target 100 yards away. The Single Shot of the Heavenly Mandate.
In answer the Master raised his short bow. But before loosing the bow he mounted his horse. The horse took one step. In that instant the bow left the string — The Single Shot of Yabusame.
The two arrows struck the same target at once. One point, two arrows.
The Englishman fell silent. The Master fell silent too. After a long while the Englishman spoke — in English. The Master could not understand him, but he knew the words were "You are precise." The Master answered — in Japanese. The Englishman could not understand him either, but he knew the answer was "You are far."
The same target acknowledges two bows. The bow does not contend over distance. It contends only over breath.
"Ranged is a solitary precision. Leaving the line, it handles only the gaze."