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hot tar ammo
Feb 4^th, 2009 at 5:27am

Sorry for the recent influx of new topics!

I was watching Kingdom of Heaven last night when i noticed that they army of Jerusalem defended there walls by spilling hot tar on the people trying to climb the war ladders. Could have ancient slingers used ceramic pots or something like that to fill with tar or something similar to launch into the armies? Any records? It could be a little impractical when you could be using rocks but is it possible? Its kinda similar to the fire ammo thread. Personally i wouldn't use any of the two methods apart from casting rocks.

Does this make sense?>

I don't recommend this because of the risk of burning yourself obviously. Please, only theories.

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Reply #1 - Feb 4^th, 2009 at 5:47am

Oh, yes. They had jars filled with pitch, tar, lime, anything that would burn or irritate. For stink bombs, they threw in slivers of horse hooves or broken pieces of horn Tongue

Sling staffs were primarily used for these, as it was able to handle the jars. There is a picture of this happening from the Chronicles of Matthew Paris. A slingstaffer on a boat is flinging a jar onto another boat. Its in the Corpus Christi College Library, Oxford MS16:59v.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #2 - Feb 4^th, 2009 at 7:08am Quote: For stink bombs, they threw in slivers of horse hooves or broken pieces of horn Tongue don't forget sulphur - burns and stinks Brimstone dontcha know
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3237 Akron NY Gender:	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #3 - Feb 4^th, 2009 at 12:19pm Jars of red hot sand were also used sometimes.
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Re: hot tar ammo
Reply #4 - Feb 4^th, 2009 at 8:48pm

Yep my sinuses will agree to that been recieving constant doses of Sulfur Dioxide from a clinets test site all this week.........

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Curious Aardvark wrote on Feb 4^th, 2009 at 7:08am:

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For stink bombs, they threw in slivers of horse hooves or broken pieces of horn Tongue

don't forget sulphur - burns and stinks

Brimstone dontcha know Wink

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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #6 - Feb 21^st, 2009 at 8:54pm GREEK FIRE MUAHAHAHAHA
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #7 - Feb 23^rd, 2009 at 6:43pm lol well if you come up wih the formula for greek fire - let us know, cos nobody else does
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xxkid123 Past Moderator Offline Hallo, ich heiße kartoffel Posts: 4807 new to california Gender:	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #8 - Feb 24^th, 2009 at 4:11pm nope- im doing greek next year i think in social studies :p might actually do me some good
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castanon93 Descens Offline IN BELLU PRIMUM Posts: 208	Re: hot tar ammo Reply #10 - Mar 21^st, 2009 at 5:08pm Aztecs used to heat stones before hurling them with their slings called Tematlatls, which are made from maguey fibers. that way the stones became even deadlier.
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