ANST - Another idea (ladders)

[Keith Hood]

>
><< all in all, ladders are a *bad* idea in this scenario .. and i doubt
>  that any sane marshal would allow them (mention it to the scadian
>  lawyers & insurers and watch the blood pressure rise before your
>  eye's ...).   >>
>

I can't see them being any worse than assault towers or ramps.  Their point 
is to stand still and provide a platform so an archer can see over the wall, 
not to be moved up to the wall and have people running over them.  They'd be 
used back from the walls where the press isn't as thick.  If stability is a 
worry, add angle brackets to the bottoms of the legs and stake them down 
like a tent.

And I'm not talking about something like the fire department would use; I'm 
talking about using a common household stepladder and being no more than 4 
or 5 feet off the ground.  Given that short a height  and being more distant 
from the walls than where ramps are used, I think the degree of risk is 
acceptable.

And don't talk to me about the $!#@$@#!*** lawyers and insurers.  This is 
our thing, not theirs.


      Tomonaga


--
A long bow and a strong bow,
And let the sky grow dark.
The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
And a foreign king for a mark!

        -- Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers" --
               By Robert E. Howard, who should be
                 the patron saint of Ansteorra

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