#Siege Engines

[victusinveritas]

In case you need it for your D&D games or siege actions— here's what the ballistic trajectory of a flaming pumpkin fired out of a trebuchet looks like.

[a-book-of-creatures]

Roberto Valturio's dragon siege engine, that surely never existed, from De Re Militari.

If my Latin (and translation software) doesn't fail me, the inscription at the top reads "Arab machine for the capture of cities, large and immense, filled with men, bridges, ladders, and various instruments of war".

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"GROND THEY NAMED IT, IN MEMORY OF THE HAMMER OF THE UNDERWORLD OF OLD."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on an illustration depicting Sauron's host during the Siege of Gondor, bringing up the hundred-foot long battering ram, Grond, to smash the Great Gate of Minas Tirith and burn the White City. March 3019 of the Third Age.

"Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it."

-- "The Siege of Gondor," Book IV of "THE LORD OF THE RINGS: The Return of the King," written by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Source: www.instagram.com/tr.middlee_earth/p/CxtNQ_0Nknh.

[jd2kewl]

Couldn’t help myself! 😆🤘🏻⚔️

[ohgodwhatamidoing]

[karagin22]

[cyallowitz]

7 Tips to Using Siege Weapons in Fiction

Google Image Search Siege weapons are rather restricted in its use, but that doesn’t mean one shouldn’t think about using them.  If you just toss them in, you might find that they don’t make sense or fail to get a decent impact.  There isn’t anything necessarily wrong about just mentioning them being there, but readers tend to expect such things to serve a purpose.  So, what are some things to…

[sweetcardamom]

I have been assigned inferior technology. Who wrote this?

I'm a ballista

[dragonkingancalagon]

Short History of Artillery -Antiquity to 19th Century

Artillery is the king of the battlefield. Even today, with air power, smart ammunition and drones, most of the damage is still being done by the artillery. In July 2024, Ukrainians were firing 2 000 rounds per day while Russians were firing 10 000. From at least the Crimean war until today, most of the damage and casualties was typically caused by the artillery. Yet it wasn’t always this way.…

[warfantasy]

Short History of Artillery -Antiquity to 19th Century

Artillery is the king of the battlefield. Even today, with air power, smart ammunition and drones, most of the damage is still being done by the artillery. In July 2024, Ukrainians were firing 2 000 rounds per day while Russians were firing 10 000. From at least the Crimean war until today, most of the damage and casualties was typically caused by the artillery. Yet it wasn’t always this way.…

[victusinveritas]

[a-book-of-creatures]

I always thought this was a siege engine of some sort

Some sort of siege weapon(?), woodcut from an illustrated edition of Vegetius' De re militari, German, 1511

[age-of-moonknight]

“Reborn,” Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (Vol. 2/2024), #2.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[oldschoolfrp]

Defenders pour into the gap after a siege tower pulls down their castle wall (Jim Holloway, Dragon 154, February 1990)

[we-are-siege-engineer]

You don’t gotta do like engineering or even a trade job or whatever. Comment in the tags what and why as you wish, and lemme know if I missed any

[captain-price-unofficially]

A US Army M728 operated by the FBI reverses from the burning compound of David Koresh's Branch Davidians, Waco, 1993.