> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Hopcroft > Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 12:05 PM > To: The GURPSnet mailing list > Subject: Re: [gurps] [VEHICLE] of the week 596 5/7th - > Self-Propelled Trebuchet > > Onno Meyer wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 10:23:21AM +0200, Onno Meyer wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Self-Propelled Trebuchet v1.0 (TL7 7/8th) > >>> > >> I would love to see more of the world where this is a > popular vehicle. > >> > >> R > >> > > > > The listed tech level is a clue. Do you recognize it? > > > Well, outside of some other consideration this looks a bit of > an odd duck. The construction of this vehicle requires the > development of internal combustion, which in turn requires > early developments that would have made castles obsolete and > thus made constructing this vehicle a rather pointless > exercise (unless it has some more significant function). > > If you can drive up something like this to a wall, you can > also simply bring down the wall with cannon -- and since the > defenders know this the wall is unlikely to be there in the > first place.
Clearly this a divergent TL vehicle of some sort, post-apocalyptic type setting, etc. Still, very cool Onno! This isn't Dies the Fire, is it? I thought gasoline would have gone bye-bye too. ----------------------------- Shawn A. Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------- "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
