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40d:Ballista arrow
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Ballista arrows are created at a siege workshop and used as ammunition by a ballista. Wooden ballista arrows are made using one log, and (presumably)[Verify] more powerful ones can be made using one log plus a metal ballista arrowhead from the forge.
Ballista arrows, even mere wooden ones, are extremely deadly, able to turn a vast swathe of troops into flying corpses. It usually takes a wall or other similar object to stop them, but even then they can still be reused by firing into a wall or raised bridge above a channel.
Additionally, ballista arrows can be destroyed by hitting too many targets in a row. Each arrow normally has a range of 200 tiles, but impacting a creature will subtract an amount from that range based on the [DAMAGE_PERC] of the arrow's material: materials with 50% or less damage subtract 50 tiles per hit, materials with 150% or more damage subtract just 5 tiles per hit, and everything in between scales linearly (e.g. steel subtracts 12, iron subtracts 27, bronze subtracts 38, and copper subtracts 42).
See also: Siege engine