Siege Draft:Combat - Siege Ammunition

Siege ammunition

General

1. Siege engine ammunition must not be heavier than 0.45 kilograms in weight.
2. Siege class ammunition must be coloured with yellow tape as described below, in order to denote it as siege class ammunition.
3. Siege ammunition is not allowed to be fired from small arms or thrown by hand.
4. All projectiles must have the owner's name, and group clearly and legibly printed on it in English characters for identification.
5. Siege ammunition is only allowed to be constructed of the following materials:
   1. Open-cell or closed-cell foam.
   2. Tennis balls
      1. Tennis balls must be punctured with a hole less than 2 mm in diameter, A or a slit less than 37.5 mm in order to relieve internal pressure. [[Armoured_Combat:Missile_Weapon_Standards|AC rules list it as not greater than a 6mm hole and must not be slotted
   3. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe (commonly used as irrigation pipe) meeting ASTM D2239 (and minimum 25.4mm inner diameter) or ASTM D2737 (and minimum of 31.8mm outer diameter) and manufactured of PE3408, PE3608, PE3710 or PE4710 resin, or equivalent.
   4. Cord.
   5. Duct and filament tape.
   6. Film canisters.
   7. PVC reinforcement rings.
      1. Rings may not exceed 5 centimetres in length.
      2. Missile shafts may not be made from PVC.
   8. Leather.
   9. Lightweight fabric such as broadcloth, trigger, or similar material.
6. Large siege ammunition is intended to simulate large, heavy projectiles normally used as anti-structure missiles (e.g., 100+kg sandstone rocks used in the largest of engines). These missiles are simulated with 0.45kg "rocks."

Large siege ammunition

Large siege ammunition must:

1. Be constructed of fabric spheres filled with light-density foam and taped with filament and duct tape for protection.
2. Be a minimum of 6.5 inches (165mm) in diameter.
3. Have at least 50% of their surfaces covered with yellow tape.

Small siege ammunition

Small siege ammunition is intended to simulate smaller, lighter projectiles used as light anti-structure and antipersonnel missiles (e.g., ballista javelins and 4.5 kg stones as used in Perriers). Permissible small siege projectiles include:

4-tennis-ball clusters

1. The tennis balls must be punctured and either:
   1. Secured with filament tape and duct tape or
   2. Tied together with a cord passing through each ball and wrapped with duct tape.
2. At least 50% of their surfaces must be covered with yellow tape.

Ballista bolts

1. Ballista bolts must have a shaft made from HDPE pipe (as per 3.1.5).
2. They must have a tip made with at least 76mm of resilient material between the end of the shaft and the striking surface, must be at least 64mm in diameter, and must have at least 25.4mm of progressive give without bottoming out on the shaft.
3. The end of the shaft that the tip is secured to must be capped with a minimum of 4mm thick leather, or a 35mm film container (or similar item), securely fastened with filament tape.
   1. The tip must be secured to the shaft with filament tape that completely covers the foam, then covered with yellow tape.
4. The back end of the bolt may have a short (less than 51mm in length) piece of PVC pipe (or other similar non-brittle, non-metallic, lightweight material), that is securely attached to reinforce this area.
5. Bolts must be stable in flight or have fletching made from flexible material to make them stable in flight.
6. They must be at least 122cm in length.
7. Bolts made with HDPE pipe that is not yellow in colour must have their shafts and striking surfaces covered completely with yellow tape, except for an area that is just large enough to show a full set of the specifications imprinted on the pipe's surface.
8. Shafts made from yellow HDPE pipe must not be covered with tape, and the markings must be visible.
9. 1/2 tennis balls may be attached to the foam tip to cover the striking surface as long as they are an integral part of the tip and there is at least 25.4mm of progressive give after the 1/2 tennis ball is attached.

Specialty siege ammunition

1. Specialty siege ammunition is intended to simulate specialty ammunition (e.g., flaming oil pots or flaming javelins) or effect weapons (e.g., diseased animal corpses or the heads of decapitated messengers).
2. Specialty missiles will have damage determined in the scenario rules. Most effect weapons will have little or no damage potential, and therefore should be used sparingly.
3. Specialty siege ammunition may be used as long as it does not exceed the weight or construction limitations of the approved ammunitions.