04-27-2009, 06:24 PM
Folks, I want to appologize. I'm usually pretty easy going, but I think some hot buttons were pushed, and I let my temper get the best of me.
Nerva, I'm sure you are a fine individual, and I think we should just "agree to disagree." I am sometimes wrong, I am sometimes right, particularly based on actual hands on work and study.
That is all for me. Eventually, once completed and tested, I'll have my little 1.5" machine here, and we will then see what it does. If it fires an arrow sufficiently fast and accurately to defeat a Roman enemy (armor piercing, shield penetration, maximum range, effective range, velocity of arrow, etc.) then I will be satisfied a small machine is a combat catapult, even if small, and not something out of "fantasy land." A small machine doesnt mean it is fired from off hand standing position in the field, remember, just that it is small for whatever reasons the original Xantan machine was created for (whatever that was).
Good day, all.
Dane
Nerva, I'm sure you are a fine individual, and I think we should just "agree to disagree." I am sometimes wrong, I am sometimes right, particularly based on actual hands on work and study.
That is all for me. Eventually, once completed and tested, I'll have my little 1.5" machine here, and we will then see what it does. If it fires an arrow sufficiently fast and accurately to defeat a Roman enemy (armor piercing, shield penetration, maximum range, effective range, velocity of arrow, etc.) then I will be satisfied a small machine is a combat catapult, even if small, and not something out of "fantasy land." A small machine doesnt mean it is fired from off hand standing position in the field, remember, just that it is small for whatever reasons the original Xantan machine was created for (whatever that was).
Good day, all.
Dane
Dane Donato
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