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Topic	How efficient are balistas?
wolfy42 05/07/19 11:45:13 PM #26:	Mr Hangman posted... Bows, crossbows, ballista, mangonels, catapaults, trebuchets... all of them seem to max out at ~300 meters for best-case accurate shooting. Up to ~400m in ideal conditions but you're not hitting a target at that range. I defended ep3, but this one was just BS. The show ballista were well beyond any believable capability. People who want to wave it away as "it's fantasy" are missing the point. Dragons are fantasy and they're impressive and terrifying because real world medieval technology would struggle to resist them. I could believe the ballista working well enough that it would be too risky for the dragon to dive down and roast the fleet, but sniping it out of the sky is BS. As I said, they could have done it believably, just have the ballista's all mounted on the ships aiming upwards and wait for the dragon to get fairly close and all fire, it would work ONCE, and if both dragons were near, might even hit them both. You certainly wouldn't be swivling them like some kinda of Star Wars laser gun, but if they were all pointing in the right direction and you had enough ships? Sure, there would be some sort of chance of at least wounding a dragon. What they did......could only be explained with magic that so far at least has not existed in that world, other then....possibly, by the night king throwing his spear (which was already kinda wacked, but at least...MAGIC.....was an option for him (I mean it was a magic spear). ONE ballista that acted like that...would not make any sense, a freaking fleet of them, that are easy to move around (or just makes tons of so you have extra for the castle as well), is just rediculous. There were other ways to take out a dragon, even using the special dragon crossbows...that wouldn't have just been plain dumb. Use them, also don't have them just instantly destroy all of Danny's fleet as well. Dragons...full grown dragons were not seen for ages, only having the smaller ones, and they basically allowed the targarians etc to rule, so if these crossbows were already know back then (where they got the blueprints for them), why were dragons any threat at all? A few of this at every castle and any dragon flying nearby is toast. Dragons would actually be less useful then a catapult at that point. --- We are 4 oreos from Heaven!!!! <cite>wolfy42 posted [p:921606604] in How effici... [t:77697811]...</cite> <quote><cite>Mr Hangman posted...</cite> <quote>Bows, crossbows, ballista, mangonels, catapaults, trebuchets... all of them seem to max out at ~300 meters for best-case accurate shooting. Up to ~400m in ideal conditions but you're not hitting a target at that range. I defended ep3, but this one was just BS. The show ballista were well beyond any believable capability. People who want to wave it away as "it's fantasy" are missing the point. Dragons are fantasy and they're impressive and terrifying because real world medieval technology would struggle to resist them. I could believe the ballista working well enough that it would be too risky for the dragon to dive down and roast the fleet, but sniping it out of the sky is BS.</quote> As I said, they could have done it believably, just have the ballista's all mounted on the ships aiming upwards and wait for the dragon to get fairly close and all fire, it would work ONCE, and if both dragons were near, might even hit them both. You certainly wouldn't be swivling them like some kinda of Star Wars laser gun, but if they were all pointing in the right direction and you had enough ships? Sure, there would be some sort of chance of at least wounding a dragon. What they did......could only be explained with magic that so far at least has not existed in that world, other then....possibly, by the night king throwing his spear (which was already kinda wacked, but at least...MAGIC.....was an option for him (I mean it was a magic spear). ONE ballista that acted like that...would not make any sense, a freaking fleet of them, that are easy to move around (or just makes tons of so you have extra for the castle as well), is just rediculous. There were other ways to take out a dragon, even using the special dragon crossbows...that wouldn't have just been plain dumb. Use them, also don't have them just instantly destroy all of Danny's fleet as well. Dragons...full grown dragons were not seen for ages, only having the smaller ones, and they basically allowed the targarians etc to rule, so if these crossbows were already know back then (where they got the blueprints for them), why were dragons any threat at all? A few of this at every castle and any dragon flying nearby is toast. Dragons would actually be less useful then a catapult at that point. --- We are 4 oreos from Heaven!!!!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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