Re: Siege Weapons

This website has some excellent pics and diagrams of Ancient siege
weapons.  It's very good, for an amateur site.


http://198.144.2.125/Siege/Blueprints.htm


You might also try some books on the subject. Kern's "Ancient Siege
Warfare", Keen's "Medieval Warfare", Warry's "Warfare in the
Classical World", and Guilmartin's "Gunpowder and Galleys" are all
excellent sources for information on siege weapons and ships.
"Gunpowder" provides some very cool diagrams of armament layouts in
Renaissance galleys. [note the layouts we see in actual SJ vessels
seem mostly based on WWII armament layouts].  Smith's "Vanguard of
Empire" and Cippola's "Guns, Sails, and Empires" are excellent
resources for Renaissance era ships, "Vanguard" includes a very cool
listing of what one ship was actually outfitted with for an
expedition to the new world.  Pryor's "Geography, Technology, and
War" provides a great look at how the Med influences the societies
which surround it during the Middle Ages.

Anyway, all great works.
--
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed
since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  pwestermeyer@????????.??.com