"Whistling Sling Bullets Were Roman Troops' Secret..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 Jul 2016 12:39 p.m. PST |
… 'Terror Weapon'. "Some 1,800 years ago, Roman troops used "whistling" sling bullets as a "terror weapon" against their barbarian foes, according to archaeologists who found the cast lead bullets at a site in Scotland. Weighing about 1 ounce (30 grams), each of the bullets had been drilled with a 0.2-inch (5 millimeters) hole that the researchers think was designed to give the soaring bullets a sharp buzzing or whistling noise in flight. The bullets were found recently at Burnswark Hill in southwestern Scotland, where a massive Roman attack against native defenders in a hilltop fort took place in the second century A.D. [See Photos of Roman Battle Site and Sling Bullets] These holes converted the bullets into a "terror weapon," said archaeologist John Reid of the Trimontium Trust, a Scottish historical society directing the first major archaeological investigation in 50 years of the Burnswark Hill site…"
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| Archaeologist1970 | 12 Jul 2016 1:24 p.m. PST |
Cant wait for these to be incorporated in to ancient rulesets. "So my slingers fire at your celts" "What kind of ammo are you using? AP or Fear rounds?" |
 miniMo  | 12 Jul 2016 1:29 p.m. PST |
20% Screaming Meamies, they don't fly or hit as well.
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| Rubber Suit Theatre | 12 Jul 2016 3:05 p.m. PST |
Or they'd been converted to fishing weights. You need to kill fish a lot more often than you need to kill rampaging barbarians. |
| Tango01 | 13 Jul 2016 10:31 a.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 13 Jul 2016 3:26 p.m. PST |
:) the Rubber Suit has it. |
| Trierarch | 13 Jul 2016 10:49 p.m. PST |
A secret until you use one… The flying bullet down the Pass,
That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass." |
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