ballista

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

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.

We’ll also need a full arsenal of ballistae to fire spears at the invaders and mangonels to launch pots of burning pitch at their siege weapons.

After Qyburn’s ballista proves utterly useless, this episode raises the stakes by showing an actual threat to the seemingly invincible dragons, which is just icing on the cake.