Re: Dwarven Grand Catapults

Well, the arm of the catapult partially goes into these tubes.  it's really
hard to explain, and I can't draw for peanuts, but I can see exactly how it
works in my own mind and it does ;)

and yeah I know about the lighter weapons, but the same can be said about
the great bombard.  some races just like big weaponry :)

Tilaurin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Miller" <nghtdrud@??????.net>
To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] 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 :)
> --
> Adam Miller
>
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