Roman Ballistae in Modern Popular Culture

[P. Clodius Secundus]

Well Byron, the in-swinger vs. out-swinger debate is nearly as partisan as red tunic/ white tunic. For a whole lot of reasons I am firmly in the in-swinger camp. Not the least of these is the fact that the two most powerful reconstructions, Carnifex and Nick Watts' Firefly, vastly outshoot their traditional outswinger rivals. Nick's machine is throwing bolts up to 800m. That is enough to land them across the Danube as described by contemporary writers.