Hello Makers,
This is your formal invitation to join the hallowed ranks of the MakeICT Siege Engineers! There is quite a bit of work to do and a semi short window to do it.
This thread will be the semi-official landing post to keep track of siege weapon prep in the run up before the GPRF (Renfare) at the end of September.
I’m going to set up first in-person meeting for Aug. 25th at 7pm in room 3. During that meeting we’ll set up the targets for the projects and delegate out tasks. I expect going forward from that meeting we’ll schedule some times during the weekend to get back together and build/troubleshoot.
The Plans:
Primary Project - “Stormwind”
This will be a brand new siege cannon operated by air pressure. This should be easily achievable, the challenge will be doing prop work afterwards to make it look like a proper heavy duty field cannon you would see in front of a castle. Main goal of this project is to make a fully functioning air cannon in a medieval style presentation that can be operated safely by two people or less with minimal training.
Secondary Project - Repair/Refit the Ballista
Ideally the cannon will be the primary weapon for MakeICT during combat this year, but we want to do some maintenance and repairs on our standard bearer of The Ballista. She’s needing new strings made up, her torsion ropes replaced, and a redo of the mounting point that attaches her to her cart. Also, since she’s going to be more of a demo peice this year I’d like to make up some non-combat rounds to be fired out. Think along the lines of those screaming nerf footballs. (CAD/3D Printer gurus wanted).
Overachiever Project - “Hedgehog”
If we complete the cannon and get The Ballista in good condition we’ll see where we are and make a THIRD siege weapon, an air powered Watcha. Those that are unfamiliar it is a one-use anti-infantry weapon that it the “To whom it may concern” of weapons. It wouldn’t need to look as fancy as the above two, it’d just need to be able to lauch one volley of multiple wet floof balls in the general direction of the “enemy” once.
“Are You MAD!?” Project - (insert cool name here)
We make all siege engineers “staves” that have one charge of air and floof ball. We wait. We strike.
If any of this interests you please join me at the space on Monday.
