Re: SPELLJAMMER-L Digest - 31 Dec 2003 to 4 Jan 2004 (#2004-2)

Yeah, I thought catapults are tension powered weapon
while a trebuchet is a counterweight type weapon. I
think it can be use as a siege weapons against
fortified asteroids. So the weapon would be
specialized in it's use in any naval engagement. Maybe
used on something like an elven Armada or a Ark ship
to be able to handle the weapon.

A.Sibal

--- smu anonymous <sxoa@?????.com> wrote:
> I was of the understanding, though I could most
> certaintly (and most likely) be wrong, that heavy
> catapults were trebuchets.  However I also disagree
> with this because trebuchets and catapults are
> fundamentally different kinds of machines.  A
> catapult works of the tension in wound rope, hair,
> etc. where as a trebuchet launches its payload with
> a massive counterwait.
>
> I thnk it could probably be used by capital ships
> and such that didn't have to much rigging overhead,
> but thats my thought.  IIRC the historical trebuchet
> outraged the early bombards so I would give it at
> the very least more hexes than those but I'm not
> totally sure.


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