Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc
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Game.EXE DVD 01/2004
Wallpaper [ add images ]
Available in the wallpaper section on the official website (July 2004)
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Siege machines [ add images ]
Available in the siege machine section on the official webite (July 2004)
Arbalest
The arbalest, or ballista, is a powerful weapon in the guise of a giant crossbow, to eject heavy bolts. An arbalest's arms are wood, each supported by being spun into the middle of a large rope. The ropes (one per arm) are the springs of the ballista, made of animal sinew. When the bow-arms are pulled back, they twist the ropes. Winches pull the bowstring back.
The Arbalest is a very accurate weapon, but it had to compromise its accuracy for range. The bolts (arrows) were not nearly as heavy as 200-300 pound stones. The lightweight bolts can not gain the high momentum of the stones used in trebuchets.
Battering Ram
Siege armies used a battering ram to break down a gatehouse door or even smash a castle wall. The battering ram houses a framework in the form of a covered shed, in which a thick tree trunk was hung on chains suspended from a beam above. Carpenters would sharpen the trunk into a blunt point. The slow forward movement as the battering ram was wheeled toward the castle wall also earned it the nickname "tortoise." Troops swing the hanging trunk back and forth, and the forward end of the trunk moved in and out of the shed like a tortoise's head, battering its target.
Castle defenders can destroy the shed with explosive arrows while the siege troops cover the battering ram with animal pelts or rawhide for protection against fire.
Belfry
Belfries can be built in order to scale castle walls. Soldiers will lay in wait inside the structure as others wheeled it against the castle wall. Once there, the soldiers lowered a drawbridge at the top of the tower onto the castle wall.
Siege towers were difficult and time-consuming to build, however, and castle defenders can destroy a belfry with explosive arrows. The besieged can launch surprise raids on a belfry to destroy it during construction. To protect their siege engine from attack, the belfry is draped with rawhides of mules or oxen.
Bombarde
The word bombarde was used for cannon but from the early 15th century came to refer only to the largest weapons.
The largest bombardes would be strapped down to large timber baulks, making them immobile and therefore best suited for siege defence from within the castle.
Cannon
Cannons are large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading guns. The word cannon is derived from the Latin canna, tube. The first cannons were large, banded, wrought iron cannons. Developments in gunpowder in the 1400s helped speed the military adoption of cannon.
Initially round shot was made of iron but this was soon replaced with stone balls, particularly for larger pieces due to the cost of metals in the 14th century. The round shot were sometimes covered in lead.
Fauconneau
The early big guns, such as the fauconneau, were built from wrought-iron strips, heated to a bright yellow, and then hammered in shape to form the barrel (the hammering would weld the heated iron). Iron rings were forced over the barrel to reinforce it and to prevent the barrel itself from exploding.
Trebuchet
During a siege, these forerunners of the modern-day projectile launchers were one of the most fearsome weapons of medieval times.
Trebuchets rely on a huge counterweight to swing the long arm that holds the projectile weapon. When the counterweight was dropped, the device launched this projectile from a sling at the end of the arm.
Concept Art [ add images ]
Available in the concept art section on the official website (October 2007)
Joan of Arc
Arthur de Richemont
Alexander de la Pole
William de la Pole
French heavy infantry
English archer captain
English light infantry
Joam of Arc horse
Screenshots [ add images ]
Available in the screenshot section on the official website (October 2007)
Steam [ add images ]
From the Steam store page.
Magazine Advertisements [ add images ]
GameStar (Germany), Issue 04/2004
Official screenshots, art and magazine advertisements are considered promos.
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