Artillery Test on Harzhorn Battlefield (235 AD)

[D B Campbell]

The machine itself weighs 200 kg.

Pah! I bench-pressed 200kg only this evening. (Sorry -- that's the Shiraz talking :whistle: )

Presumably the Orsova replica weighs 200kg (really? 200?!) because it has such a large iron component. The original was clearly a static, stand-mounted machine. The tiny Xanten scorpio, on the other hand, could well have been "humped" (like the WWII bren gun) rather than strictly hand-held -- I would argue that it still needed to be propped for comfortable shooting. (Unless the owner -- like me -- had just bench-pressed 200kg ... sorry, that's the Shiraz again. :wink: )