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heres the deal guys i have a bunch of wood and nothing to do with it, so i figure ill make a weapon out of it, a polybolos. a polybolos is a weapon developed by the romans, it was the "machine gun" of the time, it was more or less giant rapid fire crossbow. i have ran into a problem however, i cant seem to find a decent picture of the thing. im sure i must be calling it the wrong thing or something i cant imagine that there isnt one recreation of the thing or even a decent description of it. i only know it exist because i saw it on tv one time, but there wasnt much about it. so, can someone help me find a picture of this dam thing?!?!

Dude! the thing is awesome, try this link.

<a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... a%3DG">USE THE F'ING A TAG, DUMMIE! (link)</a>

this is all i could find!

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/RepCatapult.htm

that thing is sweet! its going to be alot of work to build it though.

Omg, that would be totally, ahhhhh, horribly,,,,,,hard to build. You could look at some of the other catapults on the site, such as the ballista, I would try that personally.

But, if your into a challenge, TRY IT! AND POST PICS!!!!!!!!!

ammo smoke is there any chance of you removing the link or making it smaller so that it doesn't warp the whole site???

do you dout my mad skills i got entire wood shop, and a ghetto smelting furnace i can make one of these. sure it will be a pain but it will be sweet when its done. thanks for the links very helpful, i will pobabaly start this on wedsnday or thursday.

saw this on the history channnle...go for it!

?!?!?!?! What do you mean the link is gonna warp the whole site!?!

Well, I dont know you well enough to know about you madskills, so I was making a suggestion. I would personally never try it, unless a maybe had a woodshop like you .........no fair.........But, I didn't know you had a woodshop.

your super long link above is making it so you have to scroll waaaaaay sideways just to read each post

What exactly is the chain for, is that what is connected to the drawstring and loading system? Can somebody clear that up for me.

the chain is what used to pull back the bow string/firing mechinism, as the firing mechinism is pulled back a rod which fits into the spiral grove carved in the roller (the roller is part of the loading mechinism)slides along the grove rotating the roller which drops a single bolt into the "barrel", as it is pull back alittle more the bolt along with the firing mechinism is "fired" and the whole process starts over again.

Dude, why does it make you have to scroll sideways, I can see the whole thing just fine, but if it makes you guys happy, I'll get rid of it.


NOW I WILL DO IT.


Edit: JEESH, what moderator put that on my post about the link?
That was meen.