Want a own Ballista?
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old.Tohtori
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-fixes his nerd classes-
Ahem. That is not a ballista, but a smaller version, aka, arballista or arballest.
-burn nerd classses-
Other then that, cool. Though a trebucket would be more sufficient for hurling bigger loads of smelly stuff at your neighbors and or their cat.
Ahem. That is not a ballista, but a smaller version, aka, arballista or arballest.
-burn nerd classses-
Other then that, cool. Though a trebucket would be more sufficient for hurling bigger loads of smelly stuff at your neighbors and or their cat.
Sarumancer
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Sorry thats an arbalest or palintone, the romans used them to launch bundles of arrows that would scatter and spread in mid air and kill lots of people. Or they loaded them with javelins for reaching out and twatting someone at extreme range. Mind you, those things can fire pretty quickly, a few of those churning bolts/spears out at people and well, you get the idea.
How would that wreck a ram? Dont have to wreck the ram, you just kill everyone trying to use it, bodies pile up on/around it, ram is out of operation. Do remember that they were building the seige kit out of local wood and rope, so any damage to the equipment could make it explode into very very lethal shards of flying wood in quick order. Also consider, the ancient greeks did use naptha, which was an early form of napalm, mixing oil, sulphur and a few other nasty things, they'd put it in a clay urn, put it on a spear shaft with a lit rag (soaked in oil) around it, then launch it. Hits target, pot shatters, sticky gooey stuff that burns like crazy splatters all over the target, bosh, crew and weapon out of operation.
The Romans also utilised this technique, but mostly, they just killed the crew of opposing seige weapons, then used trebuchet, manogonells and catapults to do the actual wrecking. Given that a decently made Trebuchet, that you can put togther in your back yard can sling 500lbs of weigh up to half a mile, well hell, you get the idea. You range in with your Palintones, kill the crew then drop a bloody big boulder on the machine, splinter splinter, crunch crunch.
Hmm, now wheres that site I had...
Oh yes, this is the guy you want to talk to.
http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/frameset.htm
Have fun, and Ive gotten to play with one of his creations, simply silly amounts of fun (and yes, he does ship to the UK).
"Almighty Cuchuluhain"
How would that wreck a ram? Dont have to wreck the ram, you just kill everyone trying to use it, bodies pile up on/around it, ram is out of operation. Do remember that they were building the seige kit out of local wood and rope, so any damage to the equipment could make it explode into very very lethal shards of flying wood in quick order. Also consider, the ancient greeks did use naptha, which was an early form of napalm, mixing oil, sulphur and a few other nasty things, they'd put it in a clay urn, put it on a spear shaft with a lit rag (soaked in oil) around it, then launch it. Hits target, pot shatters, sticky gooey stuff that burns like crazy splatters all over the target, bosh, crew and weapon out of operation.
The Romans also utilised this technique, but mostly, they just killed the crew of opposing seige weapons, then used trebuchet, manogonells and catapults to do the actual wrecking. Given that a decently made Trebuchet, that you can put togther in your back yard can sling 500lbs of weigh up to half a mile, well hell, you get the idea. You range in with your Palintones, kill the crew then drop a bloody big boulder on the machine, splinter splinter, crunch crunch.
Hmm, now wheres that site I had...
Oh yes, this is the guy you want to talk to.
http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/frameset.htm
Have fun, and Ive gotten to play with one of his creations, simply silly amounts of fun (and yes, he does ship to the UK).
"Almighty Cuchuluhain"
Garok
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Behold the splender of the ................
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/10/21/ke102102s298747.htm
http://www.courier-journal.com/localnews/2002/10/21/ke102102s298747.htm
