Wow- mort! What a wonderfully analytical mind you have!!
Very interesting subject! I really felt that the bow and thrown weapons were not well developed in W&W - perhaps they meant to but that hardly helps us players!
I personally felt (without all your great detail attention) that bow and thrown attacks should work faster than spells but less quickly than swords/etc. My own limited experience with bow/thrown weapons in M&M was just to avoid them and concentrate on swords (for my front guys) and magic. Of course by the time I had played through and through again, all my characters could do considerable magic, but I always kept the first two set to use their weapons.
Not certain that I had added much to your very thorough examination of the subject but really appreciate that you are sharing this with posters here!!!
Wyv
(nasty note below)
[This message has been edited by Wyvern (edited 05-14-2001).]