ANST - thoughts on engines ...

[Bob Dewart]

Interesting thoughts.  I have an arrow factory.  Does any one want to make a
seige engine munition factory?

Gilli

-----Original Message-----
From: j'lynn yeates <jyeates at realtime.net>
To: ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG <ansteorra at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 5:20 PM
Subject: ANST - thoughts on engines ...


On 10 Nov 98, at 13:53, Michael F. Gunter wrote:

> Oh yes! And more ballistas! Remember our army getting pincushioned by all
> the cursed ballistas last year?
>
> We need more ballistas! And pavases! We need pavases for our archers.
> Ballistas and pavases and siege ramps!
> Improved War Armadillos! Definately better armadillos.

yo! prince! ... (g)

suggestion, if ya' want more ballistas, ammunition, pavases, and siege
ramps for the war ... host a design party with the current enginer
"specialists" and then develop some standardized plans and make them
available to the interested carpenter types out there ..

perhaps find a CAD competent type to run up some simple working plans,
make them (and instructions beginning carpenter can understand) available
in common native CAD format (DXF is a lingua franca most low and high-
end CAD programs understand), converted graphic formats (JPG, whatever)
all online for download ... *and* sell the finished plans at reproduction
cost
to those interested (easiest way to get a full sized set of working drawings
when you don't have access to a large format plotter .... note: i might have
access to one, will check and see if it's been made functional)

something else to consider, perhaps sweeten the pot with some
inducements to encourage people to set up shop and turn out product ....
say an award, new order (a good suggestion is buried in your origional
request ... "order of the ansteorran war armadillos" or something akin  ...
grin) , special party, gold, slaves, weekend in vegas, whatever ...

once rev 1.0 is out and the engine-crafter populace is "seeded" (plant the
idea, nurture the idea, reap the benfits of the idea) i would wager that you
would see those rev 1.0 designs improved and evolved upon in short order
... alsoe these rev 01 engines would be visible and start the "gee, that's a
trip!" energies going and their numbers would start spawning (at some point
down the way ... when i get some space to work on such things ... would
like to build one for my house and crew .. self and another old-timer on the
edge of coming back, and the interested mates)

another concept that many see as barrier to engines ... transport (always a
thorn in the side of the armies that integrated them into their
organizations).
might consider setting up a secure holding area somewhere, gather the
engines and related gear of those that don't have resources to haul them for
themselves ... then plan on renting/locating a truck or suitable trailer(s)
to
get them and other heavy gear there and back again.

'wolf



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