Re: Dwarven Grand Catapults

Tilaurin wrote:
>
> Dwarven Grand Catapults
>
>             Masters of enginuity, the Gortha dwarves of Agraspace have
> devised larger versions of the standard heavy catapult, for use on their
> humungous citadels.  Based upon the principle of gravity in addition to
> applied force, these weapons fire from a special chamber right at the top of
> the citadel.  The catapults swing straight into specially carved chutes,
> flinging the ball down through the citadel until they exit the other side of
> the chutes almost at the gravity plane of the citadel, and shoot out at
> enemy ships.  There are flanges at the exit points to allow some basic
> aiming, and a speech tube to the firing room (known as the ball chamber).
> It takes four dwarves to operate the flanges, and six to operate the large
> mechanisms for each weapon in the ball chamber.
>
        You know, I just can't see how this works.  Is this an angled tube?
Seems aweful complicated; I think you'd have to aim the whole citadel to
fire it.  I just can envision this right and it remain a viable weapon.
I'd just load up on 5 medium catapults instead :)
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Adam Miller