Combinations can be used to describe more complex shapes, but there's a limit to how useful that can be. For the main body we have reflex/deflex, for the extremes recurve/decurve. At the end of the day, all these terms mean is whenever or not there is some kind of curve and where. You could say that, if we ignore semantics. Super strong variants that are so strong they require being made from different materials would be called whatever Greatbows. I'm not sure about the name for a survivor crafted compound bow, possibly just compound bow, but geometry doesn't come into it. We will call it a "Modern Recurve Bow" because that's what the industry calls it.Ī survivor-craftable wood bow is either a straight flatbow or cylindrical bow, I'm not sure about the name, but it's probably not going to reference geometry.Ī survivor-craftable horsebow will probably be horn and wood and sinew, and will be a reflex geometry, it will most likely be called a horn bow.Ī pre-cataclysm compound bow is going to be called a compound hunting bow. Practically all modern non-compound bows are reflex and made of fiberglass. Now as for what bows should be in the game and how they should be described in the game, reflex vs deflex vs recurve is irrelevant.
#Recurve or compound crossbow full#
Horse bows are full reflex or reflex with stiff tips because that's necessary to maximize power in a small bow. Modern bows tend to have some kind of recurve because it's more efficient, and it's much easier to add a recurve with modern laminate based assembly. Traditional bows tend to be flat geometries, because those are far, far easier to make. Which despite the names used are not super meaningfully differentiated by geometry. This article outlines the major bow types A big part of the issue here is that people are getting hung up on taxonomy versus function vs what-should-be-in-the-game.
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