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Description
An engine
operating by tension or torsion which hurls heavy
missiles. Combustibles, rocks, dead animals,
barrels of sewage, spears, etc., can be used as
ammunition as long as they mass 9 kilograms or
less.
Catapults are typically built at the site of a
siege, or they may be built before hand and transported in pieces to
the siege site. Either way, once set up they are no longer
mobile. Catapults may also be mounted on ships.
Catapults launch
their missiles in a high-angle trajectory and are notoriously
difficult to use against moving targets.
Because of their trajectory, catapults have only a long range and an extreme range (twice long range). They may not fire at any target at ranges less than their long range, nor more than their extreme range, and all shots fired are resolved as extreme range fire (Impossible:
Archaic Artillery).
Catapults have a deviation multiplier of 5, a maximum hit number of 10, and a maximum deviation reduction of 3.
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