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    Default Build your own catapult!

    While lurking around the net I stumbled upon this interesting page about catapults (ballistas)

    It's a bit outdated (2008), but it proved an interesting reading; it both depicts the use and the costruction of a roman catapult (an variants); I'm not very deep inside the matter, but I think it can be a good source for ye historians; also shows quite a good amount of close up pictures, useful for our belowed modders I guess
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    Default Re: Build your own catapult!

    The Onager is wrong. There's three proposed reconstructions of the Onager, two of which make absolutely no real sense. D.B. Campbell has a discussion on it in his "Ancient Artillery: Some Hypothesis Reexamined" which can be found for free online.

    Legio VI Ferrata sells a video on how our Catapulta "The Beast" was built.

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    Default Re: Build your own catapult!

    well as I said I'm not well inside this kind of stuff, so pick them for what they are: fan stuff
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