ballista

How To Use ballista In A Sentence

• Constructing Ballista Towers atop settlement walls allows a defending force to shower any attackers with iron bolts, a sensible improvement for almost any siege scenario.
• Along the guardrail, a hundred ballistaes lay ready to load and fire, each set on a pivot and swivel.
• Three of the most common were the ballista, the mangonel, and the trebuchet.
• From that shelter they suddenly appeared and began the attack, so that the guards were neither able to use the engine called the ballista (for these engines do not send their missiles except straight out), nor, indeed, could they ward off their assailants with their arrows, since the situation was against them on account of the large shields. Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
• The pirates were closing; the ballista was being cranked and reloaded.
• The player can use catapults, battering rams, ballistas and ancient ‘elevators’.
• Catapults of the Middle Ages were divided into two major groups: ballistas, and trebuchets.
• With the ballistae, however, they hoped to launch flaming spears into the sails of their enemy, slowing them down.
• Watch out for stray ballista bolts, javelins etc, and avoid all the experimental kilns as they tend to explode.
• Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels.