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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Mar 10^th, 2006 at 4:24am Was there ever a Corps or body of slingers attached to or part of the organization known as the Knights Templars ?
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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #1 - Mar 10^th, 2006 at 4:30pm I seem to remember Knights wizzing into the abyss after giving the wrong answer in Monty Pythons Movie . Were thry slung there ? Or were the French the Templars slinging cows at the Engish. I'm confused
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #2 - Mar 11^th, 2006 at 9:37am both, but those where king arthurs knights not not templar. I dont think they would use slingers, the knights templar seem to be more a branch of the military then an army in there own right. They where on there own yes but they only would of had knights. Ill stop now im confuseing my self
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #3 - Mar 11^th, 2006 at 9:34pm The Knights Templars had different levels and not all were actual "Knights" in the sense that they were heavily armoured, mounted troops. They also had their own archers, so why not slingers? ???
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chaosmage Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 322	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #4 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 7:49pm I imagine their slingers might well be mixed in with the archers, if they had them.
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Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers?
Reply #5 - Mar 14^th, 2006 at 10:15pm

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I seem to remember Knights wizzing into the abyss after giving the wrong answer in Monty Pythons Movie .

No... They were flung into the "Gorge of eternal peril" (perhaps you can remember what "peril" is from the tale of Sir Galahad the Pure) by a spring-loaded device much like a catapult. It'd be too hard to sling someone without tying them up anyway. You'd have to use a trebuchet-like device just to sling such a large mass. (Did you know that at least one person in history has been trebuchet-ed into a stone wall?)

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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #6 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 12:24pm he must have been sore after that what did he do to deserve that?
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chaosmage Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 322	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #7 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 12:56pm Hahaha, yeah. One thing I love about the middle ages was how creative they were. I heard William the Conquorer would capture people trying to escape from a beseiged castle, and catapult their heads back into it.
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Taiki Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't tell my mom i'm here will you... Posts: 1255 belgium Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #8 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 1:05pm that has to be fun imagine the head of your escaped daughter falling on your roof one way of sending morale Waaay down
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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #9 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 5:57pm Were the Templars the guys that rode two to a horse ? Whats with that anyway ?
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Douglas_The_Black Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Hakkaa päälle! Posts: 3491 Salineville Ohio Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #10 - Mar 15^th, 2006 at 8:31pm I dont think that was them maybe hospitalers? it was something about how poor they where. if it where a big horse it would almost be an advantage to have a "Wing man"
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Fritz_the_Cat Senior Member Offline Eat Danish cheese Posts: 431 Detroit Michigan USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #11 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 9:21am I could see it if they were poor . It just looks funny . You know , sort of wierd
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #12 - Mar 16^th, 2006 at 10:17pm I'd rather face the peril of the Castle Anthrax than be slung into the pit.
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Altay Senior Member Offline Romans 8 Posts: 447 Gibsonia, PA (USA) Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #13 - Mar 17^th, 2006 at 12:26am Quote: I'd rather face the peril of the Castle Anthrax than be slung into the pit. Well, logically, it'd make more sense to want to be flung into the Gorge of Eternal Peril. After all, Castle Anthrax was just perilous. The Gorge was that of Eternal Peril.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Did the Knight Templars use slingers? Reply #14 - Mar 17^th, 2006 at 2:24am Suppose I just wanted alittle peril??
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