Re: Just some thought!

Actually, catapults and trebuchets should not be ship mounted weapons
because they really on 'gravity' to hit. The shot goes up at an angle,
leaves
the gravity field of the firing ship, and keeps on going forever unless it
hits another
gravity field. The main problem here the angle of entry for the projectile
would
be a liittle low.

>From: "Steven (Silverblade)" <steven.james.1@??????????.??.uk>
>
>Well really "Catapult" weapons would NEVER be used in SPelljammer because
>arcing trajectories cannot hit squat when doing ship to ship combat at high
>speed ;) Only exception would be when attacking bases.
>
>Note the Romans had a ballsita firing a 200lb ball in a flat trajectory and
>at very high velocity, that thing would be hellishly nasty, only a cannon
>of
>the mid 1600s and after would be better for damage and reliability.
>
>
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