Full Version: Making the Triple-bow Siege Crossbow
a rich man
QUOTE(mk_cn @ Jun 22 2005, 05:16 PM)
a rich man
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Nah, just one with a passion.
BTW, Kenneth is back from his trip to Xian. He has a lot of new info on the Siege Crossbow. According to him, he was told that Song dynasty acruballistas had ranges up to almost 2km! I find this a little hard to believe but there has apparently been a test done on excavated tomb acruballistas (reconstructed I assume) which reached ranges of 900m. I'm still trying to verify this. Hopefully I can find the source and quote details later.
QUOTE(Liang Jieming @ Jun 23 2005, 10:58 AM)
Nah, just one with a passion.
BTW, Kenneth is back from his trip to Xian. He has a lot of new info on the Siege Crossbow. According to him, he was told that Song dynasty acruballistas had ranges up to almost 2km! I find this a little hard to believe but there has apparently been a test done on excavated tomb acruballistas (reconstructed I assume) which reached ranges of 900m. I'm still trying to verify this. Hopefully I can find the source and quote details later.
BTW, Kenneth is back from his trip to Xian. He has a lot of new info on the Siege Crossbow. According to him, he was told that Song dynasty acruballistas had ranges up to almost 2km! I find this a little hard to believe but there has apparently been a test done on excavated tomb acruballistas (reconstructed I assume) which reached ranges of 900m. I'm still trying to verify this. Hopefully I can find the source and quote details later.
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whoops, 2km...
, i will try to ask some friends from Xian to verify if there was a test before.
Yeah but I haven't found the references to verify the 2km distance yet though. Hopefully Kenneth settles down and starts posting his comments on this soon. 
QUOTE (Liang Jieming @ Jun 28 2005, 06:28 PM) 
Yeah but I haven't found the references to verify the 2km distance yet though. Hopefully Kenneth settles down and starts posting his comments on this soon.
Have you already solved the '2km distance' mystery?
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