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    King Philippe of France Senior Member _Tristan_'s Avatar
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    Default Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Imagine yourself behind the walls of Venice, leading your valiant defenders, sure of your safety within thos impregnable walls...

    Then comes into action the dreaded French Trebuchet Snipers... (FTS acronym)

    And thus ends your dreams of glory ...


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    Look at the disbelieving faces of your troops as your flesh turns to charcoal and not one of them has the least hair singed...

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    Finally, rest in peace...

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    I couldn't stop laughing when it happened and thought i would share the laugh with you all...

    Beware of the French Trebuchet Snipers...

    Comes also in the French Catapult Snipers version... (ask the German Heir...)


    Who needs artillery ???
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Artillery is very good at killing enemy generals. Very, very good infact... And it's extremely fun when it happens!
    Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    What amuses me is the fact that despite flaming ammo is supposed to be explosive, only the general got burned...

    Burn, baby...burn
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Quote Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
    What amuses me is the fact that despite flaming ammo is supposed to be explosive, only the general got burned...

    Burn, baby...burn
    Perhaps the missile actually missed but he suffered a case of spontaneous human combustion at the same time for his past sins.
    Harbour you unclean thoughts

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    The funny thing is I like it when I do it to them but I think it's unfair when it happens to my general.
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    @Whacker :

    I'm the only authorized dealer of the damnable machines this side of the Western Ocean ...

    So...

    I challenge you
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Quote Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
    @Whacker :

    I'm the only authorized dealer of the damnable machines this side of the Western Ocean ...

    So...

    I challenge you
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    AARGH !!!! My merchant's assets just have been bought out....
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    sounds like marky would like this thread except you didnt use those rottin cows.

    i think i rememeber where a rotting carcass killed a general lol

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Both of you guys are selling worthless items. Who needs siege equipment??? You need to push them up to the city and then either have to destroy a gate or wall after which your enemy will be waiting to kill you or climb on top of the walls where even more enemies are waiting. While all of this is occuring, you are being shot at from arrows and various other projectile weapons.

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Saw this in MTW seems like artillery are drawn to the generals. IT'S BLACK MAGIC I TELL YOU BLACK MAGIC!!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHH
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Didnt any of you notice the inquisitor standing just out of shot in that first photo. He waited till everyone was watching the sieging army then with a simple application of tar, poof! Another heretic is cleansed by the holy ghost.
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    its pevergeren.

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    i did that once in rtw, except it was an enemy named character, not just a captain.

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Quote Originally Posted by Quickening
    Perhaps the missile actually missed but he suffered a case of spontaneous human combustion at the same time for his past sins.

    There was nothing left but a little green globule on the pavement. Like a stain, really.
    Age and treachery will defeat youth and skill every time.

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Well. A story out of real life: Chechen Supreme General and President Dudayev was killed by.... a Russian rocket...

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    yeah CA should give us wheel lock riflemen or austrian air rifle sharpshooters.

    but how would you explain the scope? when did galileo make his first telescope?

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    i might be interested in that there trebuchet if it will handle lobbing my mother-in-law whos bigger than a bloated cow.

    oO.........OO..........Oo glad she cant see this

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    This made me think of the one scene from the movie "The Messenger", where the French siege guy carved messages on a boulder before launching it through the governor's roof. I won't say what the message was in case some of you haven't seen the movie (which is highly reccommended!). Needless to say, I got a kick out of it

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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    Quote Originally Posted by mad cat mech
    yeah CA should give us wheel lock riflemen or austrian air rifle sharpshooters.

    but how would you explain the scope? when did galileo make his first telescope?

    Who needs a scope when with such a simple training you can get such awesome results...

    Send your men to the NEWLY OPENED SCHOOL of TREBUCHET SNIPERS (with funds from the Amphibious Trebuchet Company of Mr Whacker) in PARIS LA SORBONNE...

    You'll learn to rely on your own eyesight...
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    Default Re: Secret Weapon : French Trebuchet Snipers....

    dont forget serpentines they seem to get the general with the first shot many a time.

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