>Heavy ass iron arrow head that will curve down in to the earth almost immediately after loosed >Rope-power propulsion >To tall to reload another giant arrow without using a stool or raised platform >95% wood constitution >Basically a scaled up cross bow
How the fuck is thing actually effective? The spears that hit the dragon would of been going so slow it should of just bounced right off, assuming you where accurate enough to even hit them from your rocking ship on the sea.
On top of this D&D give it infinite ammo and 0% malfunction rate
>rides a mile without losing momentum at least it looked cool
Parker Davis
have sex, incel
John Morgan
JUST TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Benjamin Kelly
Militaryfags please leave
Parker Walker
>▶
the most hilarious moment is when this thing was capable to torn wooden ships at 300 yards.
It's better than modern artillery
Asher Nguyen
Edge master pls
Daniel Gonzalez
>rope powered Brainlet. Bows, crossbows, ballistae etc are powered by the LIMBS. The bowstring is used to pull the limbs and deliver energy into the missile. It doesnt create the power itself. Fucking faggot
Nicholas Clark
I'm willing to criticize the blatant social insertion into all these poorly written episodes but are you really not willing to suspend belief over something that would never happen in real life anyway? You think a woman walking into a fire and coming out with something living in her hands was good writing in season 1, but the physics involved in firing some gay ballista is an issue?
Owen Turner
You can sleep peacefully now next to your shit duffle bags knowing you called someone faggot on a chinese image board
Jace Nelson
Danny walking out of the fire scene brought the sense of other worldly magic to the show that separated that world form your own.. the ballista isn’t supposed to be magic
Leo Peterson
Seems sort of dumb to allow yourself to accept a bunch of absurdities and then nit-pick at the small things but that's just me
Liam Flores
Mad
Jackson Bennett
>books make a big deal about one of these hitting a dragon which was extremely rare for them to hit and when they did they bounced off >only one dragon died cause it got hit in the eyeball by a god shot
>show >lol we got auto aim fagit fuck off it's a fantasy setting
Owen Roberts
Stop watching gay of thrones you fucking subhuman dreg.
Easton Rivera
The said dragon was larger. Allso, in book spears worked well drogon
Jose Davis
>It's better than modern artillery hell fucking not it's not
A cannon is still better, can shoot a mile
Modern artillery can shoot more than 10 miles
That's not including rocket shit
That ballista shot was fantastically large though
Adrian Garcia
physics, gravity, and common sense are still a thing in GoT world you cock sucking ignorant, having fantastic stuff in your shit doesn't make it an excuse to do whatever the fuck you want with logic under that false statement of "durr durr it's a fantasy world", it's still a universe and a world just like ours, same shit, the only thing thats different is that there are giant flying reptiles and ice zombies walking around
Owen Long
the plot bruh
Josiah Scott
It's lazy writing, whereas in season 1 there was an aspect of magic that at least hinted at being systematic but which was never actually ever fleshed out in the show so it just starts looking mystical and hand-waivey.
Brayden Edwards
No, it's classic aautism from you.
Blake Allen
But seriously, how the fuck did people in the Middle Ages aim these things? How did they know where to even position them? Watching them fire, they look so incredibly random in how the projectile moves. How the fuck did they do it?
It's obviously rushed and hastily shopped together seeing as the guards looks like stickers put on the film reel, and the bow isn't scaled correctly. Nothing in that shot is properly scaled and perspective is off.
Julian Sanders
Tests and calculations. All the siege engine needs to be is somewhat reliable in what it does.
Gabriel Jackson
>Effectiveness of cannons against ships >Pinpoint accuracy >Then not pinpoint accuracy >Dragons are supposed to be muh invincible battlefield dominating machines but get btfo by basic ballista
Unironically they had to do shoot several times in order to calibrate the trebuchet
Leo Miller
retard
Isaac Gutierrez
actual weapon used in actual warfare in real life history
Jordan Scott
You park it in front of a wall that spans from horizon to horizon so you're bound to hit something
Matthew Wilson
>would of been >would of >of Entire opinion discarded.
Levi James
>never played the witcher 2.
Normie
Aiden Edwards
>But seriously, how the fuck did people in the Middle Ages aim these things?
they were good for hitting castles and their walls, even if you miss teh wall, the stone will still likely hit the castle/hit something in the castle yard and cause lots of terror even if it causes little damage and having many firing continuously means SOME will be hitting their target.
Cooper Johnson
So like, no one in Westeros ever tried to use a ballista against a dragon or what?
Xavier Thomas
where do they keep the extra bolts? how do they reload?
Logan Murphy
did you expect accurate ballistas? EXPECTATIONS S U B V E R T E D
>eyeball it for the first shot >dial it in from there (adjusting counterweight) >hit the same localized area consistently because your projectiles are carefully worked to be of the same size and shape Now imagine them having to re-aim it in once they decided to start throwing rotting cows to disease the fuckers. >putrid bovines flying short and far >team of engineers stuck hauling each and every new one in >bits of rotten cow falling down on you now and then as the carcass is launched >you probably get whatever diseases you're trying to give the defenders >imagine the smell
Connor Butler
Guessing a Kraken would be a bit much for the budget. Guess seeing Raegar getting popped like a piñata and ships getting swiss cheezed by really quick 3-meter toothpics was... better...?
nice, im gonna build one of these, for home defense
Xavier Diaz
Same way you aim anything, really.
From range practice they knew roughly how much counterweight was needed to make a stone of a certain weight fly a certain distance. You guesstimate the range to your target, then load the counterweight based on your range data. Then you add or remove a little bit of counterweight until you get it just right.
