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Tomas

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Game of thrones using slinging action?
Aug 15^th, 2017 at 9:54pm

I was just on YouTube and was watching "50 more facts you didn't know about Game of thrones" by "The why" channel...
Fact #48 shows some ships sending off some fiery missiles with what looks like a whipping action. Is it a mechanical war engine? The motion of it reminds me of slinging and I would have to say that whatever this machine is, it's using a whipping action with a cord. Looks to big to be a human but maybe it's people with staff slings.
Here is the link. Let me know what you think!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Na56TKswZ_U

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yonderstone Junior Member Offline The valiant never taste of death but once. Posts: 81 Oregon Gender:	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #1 - Aug 16^th, 2017 at 5:31am If I had to guess I'd say looks to me like a siege engine known as a medieval catapult.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #2 - Aug 16^th, 2017 at 8:21am ship mounted trebuchets. Fairly common through history before gunpowder. fact 51 - it's the slowest, most tedious series, ever aired on television
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yonderstone Junior Member Offline The valiant never taste of death but once. Posts: 81 Oregon Gender:	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #3 - Aug 17^th, 2017 at 5:08am Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 16^th, 2017 at 8:21am: ship mounted trebuchets. Fairly common through history before gunpowder. fact 51 - it's the slowest, most tedious series, ever aired on television Same with the books.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #4 - Aug 20^th, 2017 at 7:17am have you read the wheel of time ? 12 books - I think. I gave up around book 7. Don't think anything had realistically happened in books 5-6-7. My dad persevered - said it hadn't been worth it
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Reply #5 - Aug 20^th, 2017 at 1:58pm

I quit Wheel of Time at about book 8 when I realized the books had become a cash cow for the author and that the longer he drew it out, the richer he was going to get. And stuff stopped happening around book 4, after that, they were basically place holders.

The series got so bad I got bored with most of the main characters.

Nothing like buying four more books and realizing that nothing had happened.

Tolkien did it in three volumes and one independent book that set the groundwork.

Avoid Robin Hobb like he's got the jumping crabs. He built up and built up and then nothing happened.

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Reply #6 - Aug 20^th, 2017 at 3:38pm

Ahh you guys are being too hard on WoT. Sure... you need a large desk reference book to remember all the characters. And yes... 3 pages of inner monologue about opening a door might seem excessive. But its got some good parts.

WoT is a lot like the Hobbit movies. The Lord of the rings movies were 3 small books and so everything in each movie was needed, (ending notwithstanding). The Hobbit was one small book that they stretched into 3 movies and it really shows.

If the WoT had been compressed into 6 books it would be only the best parts of the entire series and probably wouldve been one of the greatest series ever written.

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Bill Skinner past-moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #7 - Aug 21^st, 2017 at 12:05pm If he had compressed it to 6, then with my luck, the first book would have been great, I would have rushed out to get the rest and discovered that he had compressed the boring parts and left out the good stuff.
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Reply #8 - Aug 23^rd, 2017 at 12:58pm

that's the thing the first couple of books of wot WERE great.

Okay I'm biased towards quarterstaffs versus swords. But the first few were good books.

ANyway currently looking for a decent series or author to read - any suggestions ?

sf/fantasy of some kind in preference. Though thriller/horror also considered.

Currently going thorugh some old dean koontz books.

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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: Game of thrones using slinging action? Reply #9 - Aug 23^rd, 2017 at 3:32pm Ive read one Koontz book. It was called The Bad Place I think. Really odd mix of reality/fantasy. Decent read though. Ive probably mentioned this recently but Ive heard the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson is pretty good.
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