Aitor Alert! Manuballista found!

[AuxArcher]

Ave , Dane !
Mention of the M-60 rings bells ! It truly earned its nickname of "the pig!".
The Aussie army got stuck with this 'lemon' too !
God, we hated it ( and yearned for a belt-fed Bren gun as the ideal medium M.G. ), but it was worth its (considerable) weight in gold in a firefight...........even if you spent the rest of your life cleaning and maintaining 'the pig' ! )
Sorry to go 'off-topic' !

Ave, Paullus Scipio. Good to find another victim of the "pig." I spoke to a machine gun collector recently who had all sorts of toys on display, but he had no idea we called the M60 that! And cleaning it - indeed a big arggg.

Since the M60 was really good for that all important supressive fire, why not this manuballista as well? The enemy would certainly keep their heads down with all those huge bolts flying at them, with a different (I am guessing) tragectory than archer fire. At closer ranges, maybe a faster velocity and harder to spot the bolts before you got skewered? Trying one out would answer some of my questions, of course.