BLACK POWDER: SIEGE MORTAR BATTERY Board and Card Games Stories and projects help you

Stories and projects help you find ways to connect to nature with your own works

Funemployed is a card-based party game in which everyone's trying to become employed

176 in color

Ptolus is massive: 672 pages - plus a packet with a poster map and dozens of handouts

each one offering the following information:

BLACK POWDER: SIEGE MORTAR BATTERY Board and Card Games Stories and projects help youThe primary roles of siege mortars are to reduce fortifications, firing explosive shells over intervening walls. The high trajectory of mortar shells allows for disruption and devastation of structures not usually able to be targeted by normal artillery fire. Conversely they can be used in defence of sieges by harassing enemy work parties who are preparing trenches and siege batteries. The 8 inch siege mortar had a maximum range of around 2,225 yards,