Thursday, March 5, 2009

Index Card #20 the onager

the orrignal make of the onager dates back to somewhere around 50 bc when it was first invented by the romans. it was used as and anti personal weapon, but mainly as a siege weapon. the average onager would stand 6 feet high and fired really big rocks, hundreds of feet. it was named after the wild donkey which because of the onagers massive kicking power related to and donkey kick.

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