Re: Dwarven Grand Catapults

Good Night

> 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 :)

There  could  be  a  multiple-exhaust,  switch-tube  system,  like  in
pneumatic  mail  systems,  but then it would be much better suited for
Tinker citadel, not the Dwarven one ;)

Good Luck
Andrew "NightBeing" Alchemist