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eris_star February 11 2008, 15:07:52 UTC
Many years ago, a friend of mine announced that he was building a trebuchet, sized to launch cabbage, to our next campout. It never happened, despite his many protestations that it would be started soon. Now we keep a tally of how many siege weapons the rest of the group have built while the promised trebuchet remains absent. Last count was three mini trebuchets of various materials and a mini-marshmallow-sized catapult of wood and rope.

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melstav February 11 2008, 16:52:47 UTC
I await the ballistae. Choice of projectile, I leave to you.

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pstscrpt February 11 2008, 18:23:29 UTC
How big does it have to be to be a ballista and not just a crossbow?

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niteshad February 13 2008, 04:14:15 UTC
If you need to mount it on a tripod, just to fire it, it's a ballista. If your first thought when trying to transport it is, "Gosh, this would be so much easier to move if only it had wheels and a trailer hitch on it" you might have a Ballista.

I see this decending into Jeff Foxworthy territory very, very rapidly.

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