Ballista

The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra[1] and that from βάλλω ballō, “throw”), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target.

Developed from earlier Greek weapons, it relied upon different mechanics, using two levers with torsion springs instead of a tension prod (the bow part of a modern crossbow), offering much greater efficiency over tension-based weaponry. The springs consisting of several loops of twisted skeins. Early versions projected heavy darts or spherical stone projectiles of various sizes for siege warfare. It developed into a smaller precision weapon, the scorpio, and possibly the polybolos.

light ballista is a two-handed ranged weapon that uses javelins as ammunition, requiring level 65 in Ranged to wield.

It is created by using ballista limbs on a light frame, then using the resulting incomplete light ballista on a ballista spring, and finally adding a monkey tail on an unstrung light ballista. The entire process requires level 47 in fletching, granting the player 330 experience.The speed on accurate is one tick slower than a godsword, but when put on rapid it matches the speed of a godsword. The ballista has an attack range of 9. Longrange increases attack range by 1.

Walking Ballista

Walking Ballista is the card that spiked most from preorder cost to current price, after it completely dominated week 1 of Standard. It was played in many different archetypes, and helped keep the Saheeli Rai + Felidar Guardian decks from combo’ing off. Ballista’s main interaction is with Winding Constrictor, since not only you can cast it for one more counter, you can also add two counters by tapping 4 mana.

R/G Energy with Electrostatic Pummeler is no longer viable, despite winning the SCG Players’ Championship in December. In a field free of Smuggler’s Copter, Reflector Mage, and Emrakul, the Promised End, it’s nowhere to be seen, despite having new tools such has Greenbelt Rampager. Losing Pummeler to a single activation of Ballista is just too much for the deck to overcome.

Some Riven mods require you to kill a certain number of tusk ballistas with a variety of secondary requirements. Like me, if you have never deliberately searched for them, you’ll find that it’s quite the challenge once you set out to do so.

You will go up and down the plains only finding one at best after wasting a fairly large amount of time. However they’re easy to find as long as you know where to look for. But since before the Riven requirements only the most observant would know where are they.

Bontrager Ballista

Bontrager says the Ballista has less drag than any other aero road helmet out there. The brand doesn’t put a figure on its claims – there’s no spiel about the Ballista saving you a certain amount of time over a given distance – but it says that the helmet outperforms the Specialized Evade, Louis Garneau Course and Giro Air Attack, according to measurements in the wind tunnel. The other brands might well contest that.

We can’t test the Ballista’s aerodynamic efficiency, unfortunately, so you can either take Bontrager’s word for it, or reject the claims.

Heavy Ballista

The heavy ballista is a two-handed ranged weapon that uses javelins as ammunition, requiring level 75 in Ranged and the completion of the quest Monkey Madness II to wield. While there is no actual defence requirement for the Heavy Ballista, completing the pre-requisite, Monkey Madness I, provides a minimum of 20,000 defence experience. This corresponds to an effective requirement of 33 defence.

It is created by using ballista limbs on a heavy frame, then using the resulting incomplete heavy ballista on a ballista spring, and finally adding the monkey tail on an unstrung heavy ballista. The entire process requires level 72 in fletching, granting the player 660 experience. The speed on accurate is one tick slower than a godsword, but when put on rapid it matches the speed of a godsword. The ballista has an attack range of 9. Longrange increases attack range by 1.

Roman Ballista

After the absorption of the Ancient Greek city-states into the Roman Republic in 146 BC, the highly advanced Greek technology began to spread across many areas of Roman influence. This included the great military machine advances the Greeks had made (most notably by Dionysus of Syracuse), as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments.

The Romans ‘inherited’ the torsion-powered ballista, which had by now spread to several cities around the Mediterranean, all of which became Roman spoils of war, including one from Pergamum, which was depicted among a pile of trophy weapons in relief on a balustrade. The torsion ballista, developed by Alexander, was a far more complicated weapon than its predecessor and the Romans developed it even further, especially into much smaller versions, that could be easily carried.