I’m thinking of building a trebuchet.<\/p>\n
I loved playing Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings<\/i> and pulling out the trebuchet, usually four or five trebuchets, in the Imperial Age and razing cities to the ground from long distances. I loved seeing the trebuchet deployed in the defense of Minas Tirith in The Return of the King<\/i> (though I don’t quite see how Gondor’s trebuchets worked<\/i>–they had no obvious counterweights). So when I saw William Gurstelle’s book, The Art of the Catapult<\/i>, advertised in the Science Fiction Book Club<\/a> flyer my interest in medieval warfare virtually mandated that I order the book.<\/p>\n (In that shipment I ordered another book, which I won’t name here, as someone’s Christmas present, but for the life of me I can’t remember for whom I ordered it.)<\/p>\n I’ve spent part of the afternoon studying the diagrams of ballistae, onagers, and trebuchets. There’s that big empty field next to my house, and wouldn’t that be ideal for setting up a medieval siege weapon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m thinking of building a trebuchet. I loved playing Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings and pulling out the trebuchet, usually four or five trebuchets, in the Imperial Age and razing cities to the ground from long distances. I loved seeing the trebuchet deployed in the defense of Minas Tirith in The ReturnContinue reading “In Search of Hobbies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-age-of-empires-ii","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}