Re: weapon ranges

Greetings all,

In our last episode, Robert Curtis Dickson said:
>I have a question for everyone.  Has anyone sort of wondered why the
>weapon ranges are so weird.  I mean a light catapult can shoot three times
>as far as a heavy catapult, now the only way I could see this happening is
>if the weight of the shot were increased more than the power of the
>machine.  However, in the real world dark ages trebuchets drastically out
>distanced the smaller catapults.  The same goes for ballistae.  What do
>you guys think?

	I think it has to do with *velocity* more than range.  In WCC
they say that shot fired from a catapult or ballista keep traveling in
a straight line until they hit something.  Maybe the shot travels
*slower* -- because of its size.

	Other than that, the only explination is that you'd want longer
light weapon range, or everybody would be running around with nothing
but heavy catapults.  Simple case of game balance.  Also, I thought
I read somewhere that trebuchets aren't used in space because of their
size, so *really* heavy catapults are left for groundlings only.

	Hope that help... :)

-Static

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