Oct 20, 2024
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.
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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.
Siege engines with decorative embellishments (Jean Elizabeth Martin, DMGR2: The Castle Guide, supplement for AD&D 2e, TSR, 1990)
Roberto Valturio's dragon siege engine, that surely never existed, from De Re Militari.
If my Latin (and translation software) doesn't fail me, the inscription at the top reads "Arab machine for the capture of cities, large and immense, filled with men, bridges, ladders, and various instruments of war".
"GROND THEY NAMED IT, IN MEMORY OF THE HAMMER OF THE UNDERWORLD OF OLD."
PIC INFO: Spotlight on an illustration depicting Sauron's host during the Siege of Gondor, bringing up the hundred-foot long battering ram, Grond, to smash the Great Gate of Minas Tirith and burn the White City, c. March 3019 of the Third Age.
"Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it."
-- "The Siege of Gondor," Book IV of "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King," written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Sources: www.instagram.com/tr.middlee_earth/p/CxtNQ_0Nknh, various, etc...
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