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« on: May 18, 2012, 07:09:18 pm »
By "like their real-life counterparts" I mean I want to be able to mount a ballista on a wall, have an operator fire it, and, let's say based on the operator's Crossbow or Siege Weapon skill, hit a target that is flying above him or walking on the ground below him, in a reasonable arc of fire, not just in ordinal directions. Then a crew of maybe three dwarves take a minute or so to reload the weapon so it could be fired again. Let's assume that a ballista without something like a pintel mount would be fairly useless.
My red hot sex fantasy is that a dragon wheels over my fortress, twenty ballistae fire at him, one of them misfires, breaks and maims a crewman. Most of the shots miss, one bounces off the dragon's scales, and one sticks in the dragon's calf (or whatever dragons have). The dragon thinks, "hey, a defenseless village sounds like a lot more fun than this place," and he effs off.
