04-21-2005, 04:46 AM
From the size of the machine, could we not call it a scorpio minor or Vitruvian 2 span machine?
As far as using artillery from a ship, do not forget Caesar, B.G. IV,25, 1 -2. Here Caesar orders his troops to drive the barbarians from the beach of Britian with a barrage of "..fundis, sagittis, tormentis..." The "tormentis" would be artillery amunition. So he was using ship-based artillery.
Kevin
As far as using artillery from a ship, do not forget Caesar, B.G. IV,25, 1 -2. Here Caesar orders his troops to drive the barbarians from the beach of Britian with a barrage of "..fundis, sagittis, tormentis..." The "tormentis" would be artillery amunition. So he was using ship-based artillery.
Kevin