Are there siege weapons in Belegarth?
In general, the answer is no. Belegarth is generally a sport of skirmish-sized battles, not sieges. There are no national rules for siege weapons and I don’t expect there ever will be. As a whole, siege weapons create safety hazards above and beyond normal weapons on the battlefield. They’re usually made of wood and metal. They have a lot of pointy bits to scrape someone up. And they have a lot of moving parts where the unwary could catch weapons, fingers, or limbs. With that said, siege weapons have been used on the national field in specific scenarios designed for them. I remember a trebuchet being used at Rag XV during a castle battle. Great lengths were taken to make sure nobody got hurt; if I remember correctly, anybody who stepped within 10′ of the trebuchet (other than the 2 operators) was declared dead. I don’t think it turned out very useful in the end – after all, it was just flinging easily-dodged foam rocks – and it created a lot of confusion over the safety boundaries.
