Rebalance crossbows

Again as a result of the ranged weapons rebalance, crossbows
needed to change. The analogy here is long blades' to bows'
m&f; better return on skill investment & a higher power cap,
but rarer.

Hand crossbows are added as a starting type, "something like an
armour-piercing dagger"; crossbows are upgraded to arbalests
(a little worse than a glaive), and a new rare triple crossbow
type is added on the top end (a little worse than a bardiche,
though with a lower skill cost.) Please note that the triple
crossbow historically existed & is extremely verisimilitudinous.

Hellfire is now an arbalest, and Sniper is now a triple crossbow
(well, a "heavy crossbow", since it has mindelay of 27 instead of
22, and since I didn't want to have to change the sprite).

All crossbows have a mindelay of at least 1.0; this is an attempt
to differentiate them. Possibly something more ambitious will be
attempted in 1.6, but this is a first step.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/throw.cc b/crawl-ref/source/throw.cc
index e78f41cf4c..3e6c54b98b 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/throw.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/throw.cc
@@ -641,10 +641,18 @@ static void _throw_noise(actor* act, const bolt &pbolt, const item_def &ammo)
         level = 6;
         msg   = "You hear a loud twanging sound.";
         break;
-     case WPN_CROSSBOW:
+    case WPN_HAND_CROSSBOW:
+        level = 2;
+        msg   = "You hear a quiet thunk.";
+        break;
+     case WPN_ARBALEST:
         level = 7;
         msg   = "You hear a thunk.";
         break;
+    case WPN_TRIPLE_CROSSBOW:
+        level = 9;
+        msg   = "You hear a triplet of thunks.";
+        break;
 
     default:
         die("Invalid launcher '%s'",