#siege weapons

[victusinveritas]

In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

[karagin22]

[incorrectcommunication]

Najimi: So tired of fake friends that refuse to leave me unsupervised in the presence of a catapult.

(Source: Twitter)

[nichrome-media]

Catapult

Slice #346

[another-rpg-sideblog]

Siege Weapons by StarSailGames on reddit

[dndcreaturesinfo]

Cerradons (continued) by Star Sail Games

[medievalsnippets]

Source: Medieval Arms & Armour: A Sourcebook. Volume 1 (Text under the cut)

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources The extent to which natural resources are utilized is well documented. We find a veritable menagerie of animal parts, with mammals providing the lion's share. Baleen plates from enormous filter-feeding whales are used in the construction of gauntlets, reinforced sleeves, and crossbows. The hides of a range of ruminants are purchased: cows, calves, bucks, roes, goats, and sheep. The differentiation of 'white' and 'red' from the norm relates to the plant-matter used in the leather-tanning process: oak and birch bark for bog standard whilst more exotic plants produce fine colours - an example being the sumac shrub for a vivid red. Parisian armourers in 1296 are prohibited from covering gauntlets with cheap black-tanned sheepskin or mégis: a thin, alum-tanned, sheep or goatskin (basaine noire ne de mesgueiz'). The 1312 regulations of the same city continue the prohibition of 'cuir de mouto' noir'. Hungarian leather is singled out at the Tower of London – presumably for its superior quality. Twisted horsehair is formed into tough ropes for the torsion- powered springald, and sinew is used to construct the composite crossbow. From the avian species, the flight feathers of the goose and peacock are prepared for arrow fletchings. The striking feathers of the peacock's train serve as crest ornaments.

[cyallowitz]

7 Tips to Using Siege Weapons in Fiction

Google Image Search Siege weapons are rather restricted in its use, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t think about using them.  If you just toss them in, you might find that they don’t make sense or fail to get a decent impact.  There isn’t anything necessarily wrong about just mentioning them being there, but readers tend to expect such things to serve a purpose.  So, what are some things to…

[blued-and-gilt]

Ah, the siege hook. A woefully unappreciated siege engine.

Many armies used them from Romans in their conquests, to English invaders.

[victusinveritas]

[karagin22]

[yehoria-offical]

"Take my hand, hammer girl" and throw that bitch over the shieldwall like you're a fucking trebuchet

*hammer girl refers to my awesome OC Hammerfeet who had her feet replaced with hammers upon losing them to frostbite

[heyblue]

GROND

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[imjustexistingtbh]

“kill them with kindness” WRONG. GROND GROND GROND GROND GROND GROND

[dndcreaturesinfo]

Cerrdadons by Star Sail Games

[oldschoolfrp]

Siege weapons and miscellaneous siege equipment, from the Dungeons & Dragons Master Players' Book (the "M" in BECMI D&D) by Frank Mentzer, TSR, 1985