Crossbow

This article is about the individual weapon. For the weapon type, see Bow § Crossbows. Not to be confused with Croissbow.

Crossbow Icon of the crossbow from Radiant Dawn. A moderately powerful crossbow. It can also hit adjacent enemies.

Type Bow First game Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

The Crossbow (Japanese: クロスボウ Crossbow) is a common crossbow weapon which appears only in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. It is more powerful than the basic Bowgun, and like the other crossbows but unlike regular bows, it can attack adjacent and distant enemies alike. In exchange its damage calculation completely ignores the user's strength stat and is based only on the Crossbow's own might, giving it a fixed, mostly consistent damage output no matter who uses it. The Crossbow can only be used by members of the Sniper, Marksman, Warrior, and Reaver classes, like all crossbows.

Stats

Game	Icon	Level	Might	Weight	Hit	Crit	Range	Uses	Worth	WEXP	Other effects and notes
Radiant Dawn		--	28	14	100	0	1–2	35	3,500	--	Ignores the user's strength. Deals bonus damage to flying units.

Locations

Radiant Dawn

Dropped by	Part 3: Prologue, enemy Silvano • Chapter 8, enemy Warrior
Disarm and/or steal*	Part 2: Endgame, enemy Sniper (×3) Part 3: Chapter 4, enemy Warrior • Chapter 5, enemy Warrior • Chapter 7, enemy Warrior (×3) • Chapter 8, enemy Sniper* • Chapter 10, enemy Sniper (Normal/Hard only) • Chapter 11, enemy Sniper (Normal/Hard only) Part 4: Prologue, enemy Warrior • Chapter 1, enemy Warrior (Normal/Hard only) • Chapter 2, enemy Warrior (×4 in Easy) • Chapter 3, enemy Warrior (×4) • Chapter 4, enemy Warrior (×3/×5)
Armory	Part 3: Chapter 6 • Chapter 11 • Chapter 12 • Chapter 13 • Endgame Part 4: Prologue • Chapter 1 • Chapter 2 • Chapter 3 • Chapter 4 • Chapter 5 • Endgame

Other appearances

Fire Emblem Cipher

The Crossbow is present as a skill on one card in Fire Emblem Cipher: B05-059HN Furiously Piercing Bow, Leonardo. It is a manual-activation skill which, for the cost of flipping one bond card, increases Leonardo's range to 1-2 and gives him a +10 attack bonus until the end of the turn.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn	A moderately powerful crossbow. It can also hit adjacent enemies.	少し威力のある『弩（いしゆみ）』 隣接する敵にも攻撃できる

Trivia

• In Fire Emblem Gaiden, while the Crossbow itself is not present as an item, enemy Snipers are depicted as wielding crossbows instead of regular bows.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Crossbow	--
Japanese	クロスボウ	Romanized as CROSSBOW in its internal file name.
Spanish	Ballesta	Crossbow
French	Grande arbalète	Big crossbow. Abbreviated to Grande arbal. in gameplay for space reasons.
German	Armbrust	Crossbow
Italian	Balestra	Crossbow

Gallery

• 
  Leonardo wielding a Crossbow in Radiant Dawn.