A ballista (its kind of like cannon)

[BobSevenSevens]

OK, for those who don't know, a ballista is like a giant bow with wheels. In medieval times, they would move it near the wall of the town/castle/whatever, put "greek fire" at the end, and launch a giant, flaming arrow over the wall.

 I'd like it to move, but very slowly. It would take about 5 seconds for a "string pulling back" animation (a little bit longer than the spear wait) and when you let go, a giant burning arrow would come out and have gravity, but not too much. Also, there would be a small radius (ex. 5 brick radius) where it would kill you if you were in that radius,  up to 15 brick radius, 50 damage, 25 brick radius, 25 damage, etc.

Here is a link to a picture: http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_2009_07_14__03_53_46/ballista_1.jpg021397f3-be73-4b1a-99ae-5b95335b61a1Large.jpg

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[Littledude]

mideval (<-spelling?)

medieval

Also, sounds cool.

[BobSevenSevens]

Edited, thanks for comment

[shuttle man]

will it be able to move around thike the ones in the movies?

that would be kewl

edit: nvm   nice.

[king cool]

i think this is a great idea. they have those in a game called empire earth

[BobSevenSevens]

Empire Earth? My friend has that!

Also: thanks for positive comments. Anyone who could model/script this out here?

[Slugger]

More BC'ish, many ppl used it and it was very effective, it'd fire a huge ball that weighed like 20 pounds and then it'd just kill a man in 1 shot. So maybe we have 2 different versions of the cannon? The normal would like be more accurate but only kill 1 person and no radius, and then maybe a one with a less accurate but have a middle sized radius, maybe a huge 1.