Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24108228-20141020170717/@comment-24108228-20141104205248

The bluesteel arquebus works better than the yewbeam in certain occasions because you don't need a woven vest to obtain the high damage. That means you can use it with mithril or bluesteel armour, and get much more armour in exchange for the slower reload.

This may seem somewhat trivial, but if a triple yewbeam wielder came across a guy with a bluesteel arquebus, the one with the gun would easily win, since Yewbeams require Woven Vests for high damage while the arquebus isn't so limited. When your enemy needs to land 2-3 times more hits than you do, and has a roughly similar range, there's little chance of you losing.