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| |  Posted 14/04/2008 22:02:25 | |
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| Right, we can do this. Bastard, it's a challenge to your engineering, it's a challenge to my design of experiment ability, anyone else willing for the challenge?
I have procured a trebuchet simulator for test runs...
The sort of data we need is in the attachment*. Though that's on basic, we can do more in advanced. You can do practice slings and everything.
*attachment failing. I shall send to any interested parties.
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:22:08 | |
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| and who, exactly are we beseiging ?
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:27:43 | |
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| | This has been done before for real on that C4 programme, although it was a Roman design rather than the Trebuchet from the middleages that we're all familiar with. They failed.
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:28:24 | |
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| | i've seen desktop versions of these, and the arrow slinging things as well, for sale as kits. whatever site it was on also features upscaled versions as well. |
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:30:32 | |
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| I wouldn't mind bringing a large medieval slingshot to COMS on my next visit. It may cause a bit of a diversion to the dreary football we've had to face these last few weeks.
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:34:12 | |
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:35:16 | |
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That one at the top looks like it's made out of balsa wood. Surely a design flaw in any trebuchet.
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:37:50 | |
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| emigre (15/04/2008)
That one at the top looks like it's made out of balsa wood. Surely a design flaw in any trebuchet. well yeah, but surely some genius can upscale teh dimensions and figure out what materials would be needed to cope with the extra structural strength required for lobbing a cow carcass into the swamp? |
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:40:27 | |
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| I'm guessing Benny already owns a copy of 'Backyard Ballistics'. Best title for a book ever.
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| | | Posted 15/04/2008 11:42:02 | |
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| | Trebuchet's, siege towers, arrow thingamebobs are all very well, but I much prefer modern heavy artillery. The Chieftain 2 gives me wood.
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