The carroballista was an ancient cart-mounted ballista, a form of mobile field artillery used by the Roman army. According to the Roman author Vegetius, each legion fielded fifty-five carroballistae, arrow- and bolt-shooting weapons of the cheiroballistra type, each carried by mules and operated by a single contubernium. Surviving depictions of the weapon appear in the bas-reliefs of Trajan's Column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius.
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Carroballista was an ancient, cart-mounted ballista, a type of mobile field artillery.
Operated By: Roman Legion, Article text
It seems that the technical innovations introduced by the adoption of the cheiroballistra by the Roman army at the end of the 1st century AD made the use of the cart possible.
In Group: Ancient Siege Engines and Artillery, Lead sentence
Carroballista was an ancient, cart-mounted ballista, a type of mobile field artillery.
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Wikidata Q3207150, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
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