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Which group is this?
#1
I came across this interesting photograph while browsing.
[Image: Roemermuseum-Osterburken_01.jpg]
Does anyone know which re-enactment group this is? I'd like to know more about their ballista, which looks rather splendid!
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#2
Roemercohorte Opladen (DE)?
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#3
Yes, they are.
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#4
Confusedhock: Confusedhock: That is a fair size balista......a rival to bestia I would guess! Or is it even bigger?
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#5
It's weight is about 1000 kg and has his own trailer. I don't have more details, but it's big, for sure.
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#6
Found it -- www.roemercohorte.de.

Thanks, gentlemen!
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#7
WOW, thats awesome!!!

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#8
It's nice to see in action. In Marle it was great when the ball hit the reconstructed wooden wall. Big Grin

I must say that I always feel a bit worried when I'm far away in the direction in which it fires. When the ball starts flying it always seems it's coming for you Smile
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#9
My first Centurio (he serves for some years in the attached Auxillary-Cohort of the "Römerkohorte-Opladen) tell´s me a nice story:
Years ago, the "Opladener" (that´s the nickname for the group) overshot a target with the Ballista and hit a school behind the area of the event. The ball crushed the window of a classroom, demolished some tables and chairs and the wall of the opposite :lol: :lol: :lol:
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#10
Quote:My first Centurio
Confusedhock: what?! do you have more than one? :lol: ;-) )
... anyway, that engines are dangerous stuff 8)
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Quote:Years ago, the "Opladener" (that´s the nickname for the group) overshot a target with the Ballista and hit a school behind the area of the event. The ball crushed the window of a classroom, demolished some tables and chairs and the wall of the opposite.
Oops -- maybe some of Josephus' stories aren't so far-fetched then?!
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Marcus Athenobarbus:3bouzg1h Wrote:Years ago, the "Opladener" (that´s the nickname for the group) overshot a target with the Ballista and hit a school behind the area of the event. The ball crushed the window of a classroom, demolished some tables and chairs and the wall of the opposite.
Oops -- maybe some of Josephus' stories aren't so far-fetched then?!

I often wonder why anyone would doubt him on things like that.... :?
I guess he was his own worst enemy.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#13
Hm, i don´t know if the story is true or not, but he told it so to me!
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#14
:roll: :lol:
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#15
Here is another shot of their balista that I took in Marle, look at the size of the stone the soldier is holding in his hand...

[Image: opladenbalistadw7.th.jpg]

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