Onager - First Components Delivered

[D B Campbell]

Right both Tom Feeley and Len Morgan are providing advice right now so hopefully we won't embarrass them too badly :oops:

Glad to hear you're taking advice, Martin. Of course, what many RAT readers won't know is that we know virtually nothing about the design of the onager!

The design you're following was suggested by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey way back when. I prefer the design suggested for Napoleon III -- a serious Roman enthusiast -- by Lieutenant-Colonel Verchere de Reffye, chiefly because Michael Lewis has demonstrated (theoretically, of course) that De Reffye's forward-sloping buffer is more efficient than Payne-Gallwey's vertical one.

Unfortunately, we have no onager manual that would settle the debate!