While it replaces regular crossbows and ballistae, the rapid-fire crossbow ultimately supports, rather than supplants, the normal course of medieval warfare. While it’s great for pinning the enemy and massacring unarmoured peasants and horses, the automatic crossbow has awful armour penetration, consumes huge amounts of ammo, and lacks the range of it’s longbow cousin.
The result is more a toy than anything as it fires a stream of low velocity bolts that go a short distance.
The high rate of fire and lesser effort to fire means that very little energy is imparted to the bolts. An inventor attempts to make an automatic crossbow, but the prototype tears itself apart before it can be fired in any extend period. Much like in the Stomme, the application of Napoleonic and medieval tactics to automatic weapons results in many massacres, and the inventor of the weapon is horrified by it’s success. The rapid-fire crossbow single-handedly ends the age of knights and castles: and even the age of longbowmen, as the weapons are both much more effective and much easier to learn to use than the longbow, allowing automatic crossbowmen to supplant all other military roles. We do however, see that it’s hand-cranked, belt-fed, and surrounded by dozens of pincushioned soldiers… Implied: We never see the crossbow fired. Conversed: “So his crossbow is somehow a machinegun? The depths this show will go for awesome…”. Discussed: “I do believe this simple bow of mine will change the face of war forever…”. “No matter if it’s crossed, automatic or whatever else, bows are a coward’s weapon. “There is no way that damnfool bow will work! How the hell is the spring supposed to re-cock itself?!”. A merchant sells crossbow bolts at a ludicrous markup, knowing that he'll receive regular business with this rate of fire. A time-traveling hero secretly switches out one of the bolts, so that when one of these weapons is fired it instead sprays splinters in it’s owner’s face. Invoked: A time-traveling villain designs an automatic crossbow, in order to better apply modem tactics to ancient times. That’s 1000% more bolt per minute than the nearest leading competitor!” Lampshaded: “Check this baby out: water-cooled, yew-cored, using the finest catgut, capable of firing 60 bolts a minute. 
Enforced: The writer is adapting a war story that prominently features machine guns into a fantasy setting, and needed an apt replacement. Averted: There is no mention of automatic fire or crossbows, or even the two in combination in-series. Zig Zagged: Some crossbows in-series are capable of automatic fire: however it varies by region, and they’re often fired single-shot in order to conserve ammo. Enemy knights can stand directly in front of the weapon and be missed by every bolt. The automatic crossbows are incredibly powerful… and incredibly inaccurate. There are crossbow equivalents of all modern guns, including crossbow pistols, assault crossbows, shotgun crossbows, and even flamethrower crossbows…if you can figure out how that works. An ordinary crossbow is looked at as if it was an automatic weapon, complete with awed cries of “That’s WITCHCRAFT!” when it fires more than once a minute. A knight fires his automatic crossbow wildly while screaming his lungs out. Double Subverted: The crossbow in question was damaged and a Weapon for Intimidation an unbroken model is capable of blotting out the sun with its bolts. 
A ballista seems capable of firing very rapidly, but it turns out the crew reloading it are just very fast at their jobs.A member of the order pulls out a modified crossbow, complete with ammo belt… and then only fires one shot, before lengthily reloading for the next one.
What looks like an automatic firearm requires a laborious pulling back of the bolt after every shot as it is actually a spring-gun. Inverted: A gun is modified to shoot crossbow bolts. Justified: The crossbow is explicitly magical maybe it automatically cranks itself far faster than any human can, or it uses magic to propel wooden bolts like some sort of medieval railgun, or it fires magical energy, and is closer to a wand shaped like a crossbow than any historical weapon, or. The ‘automatic crossbow’ in question is closer to a Hwatcha than an actual automatic weapon. It’s not so much an automatic crossbow as a semi-automatic one: the attached clip greatly reduces reloading time but is still needs to be cocked each shot. The Order’s castle is outfitted with Gatling crossbows, complete with exploding bolts, and with underslung grenade launchers. Members of the order are capable of firing full-auto with ordinary, unmodified crossbows. #Automatic crossbow gif full#
Straight: The Order of Overwhelming Firepower uses a specially-modified crossbow, capable of firing a round a second on full auto.Basic Trope: A crossbow capable of fully automatic fire.
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