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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 691080" data-attributes="member: 6533">gewd lawd!!!The turtle is theoretically possible, but that is a heck of a lot of bronze, which is very valuable stuff, to make a single very heavy thing.  It's the sort of thing that makes no sense for a historical bronze culture to even think of devising.  Unless that culture can wants to bring individuals who are capable of doing tremendous damage to men, but can't wear armor, into battle.If you can train a small group of men or things to move the thing over uneven ground and nastiness then you would have the beginings of mage knights.  Gard that's nasty.I don't even think you would need to cover such a thing with bronze to do it effectively.  Wicker covered in treated hide would be lighter, cheaper, and easier to maintain.  Bronze would be useful for the support structure and nice benefits like scythes, however.I'm not certain that it wouldn't make more sense to build these to a grand scale.  Make them out of modular components so they can be shipped.  Land.  Assemble them so that they resemble two story towers with a very broad base.  Have the infantry pick them up and move them in protected comfort. And then blast anything that looks nasty until your men are close enough to put the structure down, arm themselves, push spears through the now dislodged front wall, and charge the enemy.  Shuddering horrors that's a wicked way of using arcane spell casters.  Maybe the bards could develop a song to get all the infantry to act together without getting terribly tired or confused.  Would be useful on rowing ships as well.</blockquote>

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