ballista

Lightning flashed, illuminating several perched threateningly over the car with the makeshift ballista they had constructed.

“The ballista fired the first dwarf in that direction, I think. Come on.”

They did not have gunpowder, but they had artillery in the form of the ballista.

In ancient times, the 2,000-year-old stone was used as a missile fired from a Roman “ballista” weapon.

There were some crazy loops, like the way the ballista was enchanted, and a bunch of other stuff they played with on the storyboards.