I'm playing a Bow combat stealth hybrid. I don't really use Stealth very much with my bow and arrow. I use it to get a bonus hit [a bow power attack] or if I see a trap I can activate with my bow I will use it. But for the most part I try combat by staggering an opponent with my bow and also using range. I also try to use poisons when I can, but I don't like alchemy I just buy poisons or fine spider dens to use the frostbite venom given off by them.

My question though is, how much stamina do my opponents have?

They use power attack after power after power attack. And it's really hard as bow user to be able to defend myself against a power attack. I'm considering going the Aela from the companions way, bow alongside a shield and sword. But then it kind of takes away from my character I think.

Any advice bow user to bow user?

I get what you mean.. WHEN it so seldomly happens that I get attacked, then they seriously go in to a slaughter frenzy of power attacks. My bow is just so overpowered that one shot with a steel arrow without poison usually does the trick.

I'm still starting out, lvl 10. So I don't have all the perks so I don't have the awesome bow abilities. I also don't waste my time buying arrows. I steal them off of the many archer enemies I fight sometimes. I have like over 100 arrows all from taking off of corpses. lol.

I can deal with the people with regular swords. It's the greatsword Orc and Nord users who are just regular low level characters who go into this power attack frenzy with an already heavy hard hitting weapon. Worse is sometimes I get caught unto textures, since I don't have the stealth roll yet, I have to back up. It's shoot, back away, shoot, back away. But then a boulder gets in my way or I get clipped on a texture it's all over when a greatsword or warhammer guy decides to go for a secondary power hit.

Or I am fighting in to narrow of corridors and nowhere for me to take advantage of height or range.

I think I may just need to grab a sword.

Some creatures have only a little, others have a lot, while a few have more, and a bunch have tons...

Does that help? They seem to think that is sufficient for every-other description, except the useless things, that tell you how much, in relation to something you can't even see... Like stamina...

Creatures with heavy-weapons, I assume, are built with more stamina than creatures with smaller weapons. I notice archers tend to have less than anything holding a 2-handed blunt hammer. Other than that, it is purely speculation and guessing.

Once you get the +30% faster bows, and all the xx% over-draw perks... Plus the zoom and slow-time... you will be the perfect speed-archer.

I bumped my look sensitivity up, but that does diddle squat. I mean it's faster in I can react faster. However, it really isn't a bonus in game.

I only have to say fight and take it easy for some more lvl's its getting better soon. I did some major struggling in the beginning to. I have similar setup, try to do an easy enchantment on your bow, and have a sword with you for worst cases.

try to sneak alot in dungeons, will make it easier for you. And buy some arrows to have for harder enemys/bosses. you have alot good perks in archery tree later, so just hang in there.

I was detected by people who have X-ray vision? No literally. I kill someone in a room ,and there is a room across the way you have to walk down a long curvy tunnel before entering that room, and some people from across a hallway away detect me while I killed a guy asleep. I mean really. -.-

Enemies have X-ray vision.

I thought lvl 10 would have been fine for the Companions, but I'm starting to rethink my decision.

If you are on PC then enter console, click on NPC you want and type "getav stamina". NPCs usually do not have lot of stamina (relative to their level).

Sadly I am on the Xbox 360.

Their stamina is usually lower than what I would expect. Most NPCs have it at 1/2 of their health in my experience (human NPCs at last). It is certainly not abundant. As for 2H powerattack spamming, those weapons are slow, especially hammers. One can mistake normal attack for powerattack perhaps. About level 5 bandits for example have stamina around 60. Less than player usually have on that level.

What they make up for speed is range. They are extremely long range weapons. I was standing atop some crates and a warhammer still was able to get to me. Don't know how. but yeah.

If you have trouble sneaking in the first several levels - simply take off your boots.

Ah, the infamous (to me at least) Beth invisible extended reach that weapons have. This was modded out in OB by several mods but have reappeared in Skyrim. Basically, weapons have a hit length longer than the appearance would suggest. Someone suggested this was to avoid clipping that would result when weapons would actually contact the target. I had to stop with my fur armor wearing, bare chested, 2 hand axe wielding orc because my that playstyle is about evading enemy attacks while getting one of your own in and i kept getting killed by what shouldve been evaded attacks that hit me even if what I see on screen clearly shows otherwise

When I started an archer, I also carried a one handed weapon and shield with me for close quarters. And then, with bow perks, I no longer needed anything but my bow. Hang in there, it will click soon. Put at least 1 point into stealth, points into overdraw, and move slowly. You'll be fine.

Yeah. It's very sad. Because my character looks totally badass in his armor, but he's totally getting killed when clearly having a height advantage over a greatsword. -.-