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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on Apr 23, 2009 16:46:17 GMT -5
So ive had this idea for a while now but i am just now getting the drive to possibly making one(only because of physics class)would it be possible to make a dag legal Balista and if so what would it shoot?
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Post by Ska'ar Wulfsiger on Apr 23, 2009 17:17:42 GMT -5
I know a batista is a siege weapon of some sort...I can't for the life of me find anything on google or whatnot as to exactly which one it is. Is it similar to a trebuchet/catapult or is it the big missle launcher (javelins)? o.0
We've joked in the past about building a siege weapon that would fling a handful of 1-pound rocks across the field and hauling it out to Rag. lol I doubt it'll ever happen though, siege weapons just aren't very Dag-usable much like cavalry. :-P
Would be neat to see though, keep me posted on ideers.
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Post by Syr Kaigar Vegulfr Lodbroksonr on Apr 23, 2009 17:20:24 GMT -5
Hmmm...i think we'd have to pad his arms with at least 4 layers of blue, and probably some open cell.... What do you guys think? Heh. You guys are thinking of a ballista...Silly barbarians.... ;D
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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on Apr 23, 2009 18:31:13 GMT -5
well im thinking that since a must make a trebuchet or ballista for physics class a may might as well make it dag legal so i can use it more than once and i agree rag at least four if not five
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Post by Militata on Apr 23, 2009 18:54:10 GMT -5
heh, I made a trebuchet back in 2005 at bishop and I's first "inter realm event" we hosted.
It was interesting. I ended up making it a ballista that shot javies a day before the event and if was friggen awesome for a "storm the castle" battle we did.
Later that summer though I switched it back to trebuchet and it launched duct-tape cover foam boulders about 40-70 ft. It saw 1 event at Eryndor and was then decommissioned.
Not super useful on the battlefield, but they are fun as snot to build.
If anyone ever does wanna make a javy launcher again, I would love to play the storm the castle scenario battle again...
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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on Apr 23, 2009 19:05:52 GMT -5
thats awsome ;D so whats the average lenght of a javy?
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Post by Ska'ar Wulfsiger on Apr 24, 2009 4:06:27 GMT -5
lol Thanks Rag, I'm glad someone got the joke about googling it. ;-)
Batista IS a siege weapon.
Oh durn Mil, I didn't realize you actually DID build one. That's awesome. :-D I'd love to build a siege weapon, sounds amazing fun. :-)
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Post by Militis on Apr 24, 2009 11:18:35 GMT -5
Javy is 4ft min I think. The battle was a great time. We had a castle made out of pvc poles and rope and a cardboard ""draw bridge" and one team had to pick up the launcher with 4 guys, move it up a hill and position it, aim it, and score 3 successful hit on the door to "break" it in order to storm the castle and kill the king. The catch is that all missile weapons are in play so you had to had shield bearers in from blocking all types of incoming fire while some poor shmuck had to put his neck out to pull it back and fire it and move it. it was a grand time. Now the the treb on the other hand... I built that when I lived in my gov. sub. ghetto apartments,( I was the only white guy that lived there,) in my 10ftx10ft "back yard". It was fun to use, but I was sure the throwing arm was going to going to snag someone while launching and gouge out an eye or shatter some teeth on the battle-field. Wasn't a whole lot of safe. Not to mention that was before there was really any talk of siege rules so when we took it to eryndor they only counted the boulders as rock damage...
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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on Apr 24, 2009 15:08:39 GMT -5
i think that im probly goint to make a balista
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Post by Rowan on Apr 26, 2009 11:53:48 GMT -5
Balista
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Post by Furyun on Apr 28, 2009 11:21:04 GMT -5
So this BALISTA your working on... will it be ready by Sat. for the "Art and Science" competition at Spring awakening???
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Post by Lord Masahiro on Apr 28, 2009 12:31:14 GMT -5
Here is the thing, Im creating a keep and walls for the upcoming event in September. Was hoping you might insight a little knowledge on the building structure of said Ballista and Trebuchet. Perhaps we can get a nice battle going??
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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on Apr 30, 2009 15:23:21 GMT -5
ok i was thinking about somthen kind of like this but im doing to make it about 5 feet by 6 feet
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Post by Furyun on May 15, 2009 12:20:50 GMT -5
I was thinking about something like this,
only designed more like a white sheet that people hold the corners of and pull tight to launch a bunch of rocks
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Post by Daroth von Snugglepants on May 21, 2009 16:46:31 GMT -5
im planning on putting a sling on the srting so it can shoot both javys and rocks
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