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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Interesting looking siege engine design Mar 7^th, 2021 at 10:44am Stumbled upon this ancient website (looks almost as old as the forum...) which has a number of different siege engine designs including this one, delightfully named "Tea Trolly": http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/Greycos/trebfil7.html#tea It looks to be a really interesting and pretty simple design.
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Slyngorm Funditor Offline Slingit... Posts: 508	Re: Interesting looking siege engine design Reply #1 - Mar 7^th, 2021 at 2:24pm Isn’t it just a ballista?
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4451 Finland	Re: Interesting looking siege engine design Reply #2 - Mar 7^th, 2021 at 2:51pm With this one the limbs are flicking from the inside out though rather than the more bow like design of a ballista. Same basic principle I guess though.
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Slyngorm Funditor Offline Slingit... Posts: 508	Re: Interesting looking siege engine design Reply #3 - Mar 7^th, 2021 at 8:02pm It’s square design certainly does look cool. It subverts the what you expect such a device to look like.
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Reply #4 - Mar 8^th, 2021 at 4:41am

it is called a "springald" https://youtu.be/MWQpaHRQ480

Kick wrote on Mar 7^th, 2021 at 2:51pm:

With this one the limbs are flicking from the inside out though rather than the more bow like design of a ballista

there are other inswingers that are called "hatra ballista" they are like this https://youtu.be/qEWUiZkHVk0?t=9

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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Interesting looking siege engine design Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2021 at 5:51am I like the perrier
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