[Northkeep] Seige

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Congrats to you Kings Champion!!

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Evangelos <centurionevan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>       Is there a certain strength or pull a spring has to have to make a
> siege engine spring?  One of our shops was sent 4 heavy black springs today
> by mistake and tossed them. Since my time in the SCA has taught me to be a
> scrounger of no small talent I thought they might be useful as a ballista
> torque. One of our truck drivers, 6'4 pushing 340 stood on it and couldnt
> even budge it. Sound like it might work? I will be at coronation tomorrow to
> display them and see if they might work. We always seem to have fewer
> engines than that swamp kingdom so I thought maybe this could go toward
> evening the odds.
>      In service,
>          Centurion Evangelos Thrakkios
>          Squire to Sir Asoph
>
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> "An army of sheep led by a Lion will always defeat an army of Lions led by a
> sheep"
> -Arab proverb
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