<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>Greetings from Lord Mungoe McKlinchey</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I was designated to act as Kingdom Siege Marshal By the Earl Marshal at Kingdom Crusade. As there has been a lot of message traffic concerning siege weapons I thought I would come out of the shadows and talk a little about it.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wrote up Siege Weapon Rules and have them circulating to key figures in the Kingdom: The King, Earl Marshal, Sir THornbrandt, Sir Duncan, the Kingdom MOL, and a few others. As these are proposed rules they are subject to change, but they are based on the Society rules with a few things thrown in. I have no problem with copies being made by these good gentles.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We are trying to get a web page up at the Kingdom Marshal Page, but are having no luck hearing back from the Web minister, and I noticed that the whole Marshal's page is kinda hosed up. If the boss (Earl Marshal) has no beef I will forward copies of the rules, and the paper I wrote for War College. I have been doing a lot of work on this, I have just not had the means to get it out to the populace en mass through the Web Page.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So, I figure that having a meeting of some sort at 12th night, a class at University, and a opening event some time in April is the plan I am going to follow to get things rolling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Some things to think about as you get going of desighn and building:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Uniformity of desighn-if we can all be on the same blue prints with the same amo, things are interchangable if something breaks.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Type of Engine-Trebs and ballista- Trebs work best if the amo bounces around and richocets off the enemy. Direct fire weapons (Balista) are very good for shooting into a mass and breaking up formations.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Amo-no greater then 1 pound, has to be red. Fighters have to have a easy way to distinguish seige amo that kills through a shield. "If it is red, you are dead."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Frindly fire-If you are planning on firing over the heads of our own people, you best make sure you have the range. You do not want to kill a Duke by accident, it makes them grumpy.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Armor-you will have to still wear minimum as do the Archers.<BR></DIV> <DIV>Desighn-check with me before blowing money on materials. It is easier to make changes on paper then 2x4's.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Atlantian Seige Enginers goal "One shot, one kill."<BR>"Live the ordinary life in a inordinary way."</DIV></BODY></HTML>