With any luck, divine intervention and a howling tail wind I'll be off to Denmark next year to take part in an experimental archaeological project. This will invlove me building a new catapult and hauling it around to the other side of the planet then being let loose on a series of period walls from wood through mudbrick to stone. the new machine will be a 4 mina ballista going by the name of Agrippa. Agrippa will be roughly twice the size of Vespasian and to put it mildly very expensive.
Like this one only really freaken big.This is of course an expensive undertaking and if anyone happens to know of someone with a wad of cash and a desire to fund general smashage by all means let me know at 22adartillery@gmail.com
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Are you going to use it against the climate summit in Copenhagen?
Until you can toss a pumpkin over 2000 yards with it.....
To see a great trebuchet, check out the punkin chunkin 2008 and 2009 challenges. It might be on YouTube. The trebuchet is called Yankee Steel and weighs 25 tons.....
Yeah thanks Cargossquid I've already published the stats from the PC.
Yankee SIEGE isn't actually period machine and I don't see anyone asking them to drop by with their machine for a research project.
The military value of throwing gourds is in fact very limited.
But thanks for using my post to piss all over my work. On ya.
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