06-02-2015, 07:36 PM
The wiki article seems to think it was based off instability:
"Some other historians believe that its weight on the prow compromised the ship's navigability and the Romans lost almost two entire fleets to storms in 255 and in 249 BC, largely due to the instability caused by the device. These losses were probably the main reason for the abandonment of the boarding-bridge in ship design by the end of the war."
Corvus Boarding Device
Also, I thought that Agrippa used the harpax, not the traditional style large corvus.
"Some other historians believe that its weight on the prow compromised the ship's navigability and the Romans lost almost two entire fleets to storms in 255 and in 249 BC, largely due to the instability caused by the device. These losses were probably the main reason for the abandonment of the boarding-bridge in ship design by the end of the war."
Corvus Boarding Device
Also, I thought that Agrippa used the harpax, not the traditional style large corvus.
