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Originally Posted by Refplace
Why not use catapults for delivery by the way?
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Originally Posted by Nereidalbel
Flying mages can follow up with fireball wands to ignite things right after they hit the ground.
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Originally Posted by Refplace
Right but the can fire at catapult targets as well and wont be as tired trying to haul sacks of grain around. Or as much of a target.
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The larger catapults are located near the sea walls. They can shoot outside the land walls, but only around 100-200 yards away from them. Smaller ballistae can reach 300-350 yards from the walls.
The PCs would be more comfortable if the explosion took place maybe 500 yards away from the walls, unless there is just no good concentration of enemy troops that far out.*
Also, I think falling from a 1,000 yards** in a bag spreads flour or grain dust around better than being shot from a ballista a mere 300 yards.
*In which case the PCs may throw caution to the winds and elect to aim for a point closer to the walls anyway, in typical PC fashion. Hoping that they calculate the blast radius close enough to correctly so that they don't scour the walls clean of their own men.
**Or higher, if desired, given that the higher they go, the safer the mages are.