A ballista elephant, also known as a Khmer ballista, is a war elephant mounted with a simple or double-bowed ballista which was used by the Angkorian civilization. They are considered as the summit of sophistication of Khmer weaponry comparable to the carrobalista in the legion of Vegetius.[1]
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A ballistaelephant, also known as a Khmer ballista, is a war elephant mounted with a simple or double-bowed ballista which was used by the Angkorian...
word originating from the Roman name arcuballista (from arcus 'bow' + ballista 'missile-throwing engine'), which was then used for crossbows, although...
8th to 11th centuries. The bed crossbow has been compared with the ballistaelephant that can be seen on the bas-relief of the 13th century Bayon in Cambodia...
Carroballista was an ancient, cart-mounted ballista, a type of mobile field artillery. According to the Roman author Vegetius (Epitoma rei militaris II...
including "crossbow" itself; most of these names derived from the word ballista, an ancient Greek torsion siege engine similar in appearance but different...
the Mahajanapadas, and used in mounted warfare on horses, camels, and elephants with a howdah. The importance of archery continued through antiquity during...
respectively), as well as a new map type with environments, units such as the ballistaelephant, improved AI, and more. On August 21, 2017, at Gamescom, Microsoft...
controlled by a mahout. The Khmer Empire used ballistaelephants, war elephants equipped with ballista-like weapons. Cattle, in some instances, saw use...
Khmer presumably after the fall of Angkor (1431 CE). Khmer elephant mounted crossbow Khmer elephant mounted crossbow In 1880, Louis Delaporte noticed the crossbows...
empires used war elephants as battering rams. Medieval designs include a large number of catapults such as the mangonel, onager, the ballista, the traction...
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basket for hauling earth. Sudis: stakes for construction of camps The ballista was a powerful catapult, consisting of a beam with a frame at the end,...
who serve Taurus Ballista and their queen Formica Regia. Formica Regia (フォルミカ・レギア, Forumika Regia): The Queen Ant Lord and Ballista's right hand, aiding...
An assortment of other ancient European bolt throwers exist such as the ballista, but these were torsion engines and are not considered crossbows. Crossbows...
for movies. He begins leading a gang that uses ancient weapons such as ballistas and caltrops to loot banks. Gregorian Falstaff Len Wein Irv Novick Batman...
during the late empire, were fought with the preparatory bombardment from ballistas and onagers. These war machines, a form of ancient artillery, launched...
earlier at 10,000 BC. This is in part due to the possible presence of dwarf elephants in contemporary Egyptian art. Not all plants and flora were purely functional...
gates probably used the same animal-sinew torsion springing as the Roman ballista; Ibid, pp. 137–138: opposing teams of Reds and Whites are prominent in...
historical weapon. Domina Gunilda was the name given to a remarkably large ballista, a mechanical bolt throwing weapon of enormous size, mounted at Windsor...
Roadblock, one team member had to put on a suit of armor and then use a ballista to fire an arrow into a shield 150 feet (46 m) away. Once successful, a...
burden until the Late Period. There is also evidence to suggest that elephants were briefly used in the Late Period but largely abandoned due to lack...
also known as "engines of war", like the catapult, onager, trebuchet, and ballista, are also referred to by military historians as artillery. During medieval...
their backs. War elephants were widely employed, for both tactical and logistical purposes. Late in the Khmer Empire, the ballista (a kind of catapult...
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