building the impossible: the roman war machine. part 2

the roman war machine

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[alteredchild]

HOW IN ANYWAY IS THIS IMPOSSIBLE?

[KarstenBopBop]

A ballista is a catapult ... you must be thinking of an onager. A catapult is a piece of siege equipment that is used to hurl missiles at great distances. A ballista is indeed a catapult.

[alteredchild]

(Hi, I've just woken up so I'm not certain I correctly understand your comment, please take that into consideration when reading my answer) I believe it'd be harder than that because they require people with skill, and the timber is very heavy, also they wouldn't have had blue prints, just drawings.

[Mrjablin]

i dont get these people in the acient time they could made it in masses just look at the bleuprints and make it -,-

[blitzsoldier1]

Fire in the holle! Primitive people built these stuff too easy,but these scientists are scratching their brains trying to build one :p

[antonposa]

History nerds are so funny. "Excuse me, you are NOT building a Roman catapult if you leave the plating off." Ok bro...

[AndreasDourin]

ballista is greek word comes from the word balo(Βάλω)means firing or throwing somethink.

[Mihai Serban]

yes, traditionally it's developed by the greeks in 400 BC but there's a reference to ballistas and catapults (katapeltes) in the old testament at around 600 BC- in the second book of cronicles - 26 "The reign of Ozia"- "he built machines that where capable of throwing arrows and big rocks at great distances"

[MrAwsom39]

technicly it's classified as a catapult

[walter gazdzik]

in this point of time their was also the Trebuchet, then they have just discovered gunpowder, so cannons took over, but the Trebuchet lived on another 100 years even though they had gunpowder, because its such a great piece of machinery. their u understand now lol