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Of Scorpions & Sliders
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08-08-2009, 09:29 PM
To my understanding the terms cheiroballistra and scorpion describe completely different weapons. First is wide-spaced, iron-framed, and according to some (myself included) it was an in-swinger. Scorpion was either a wooden-framed, narrow-spaced outswinger, or a one-armed stone thrower. There are those who think that all ballistas were in-swingers and that the two existed side by side until around 100 AD when the iron-framers made the euthyone redundant.
P. Clodius Secundus (Randi Richert), Legio III Cyrenaica
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Of Scorpions & Sliders - by P. Clodius Secundus - 07-23-2009, 07:58 AM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by D B Campbell - 07-23-2009, 08:52 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-07-2009, 07:14 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-08-2009, 08:12 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by P. Clodius Secundus - 08-08-2009, 09:29 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-09-2009, 12:47 AM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-09-2009, 10:20 AM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-09-2009, 08:44 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-10-2009, 03:54 AM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-10-2009, 05:01 AM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-10-2009, 05:17 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by AuxArcher - 08-11-2009, 12:21 PM
Re: Of Scorpions & Sliders - by Warhammer1 - 08-11-2009, 11:40 PM

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