[RexBeach]

Could this be related, somehow, to so-called “Greek Fire”?

[C19fan]

Steam Punk ping!!! THe Japanese had steam driven weapons in a anime series I am a big fan of.

[STD]

Think for one second. Could the current oppupants of greeco-italian culture possibly get off the government largesse put aside the goodlife long enough to live.die/suffer/die and finally conquer ROMAN legions?

You must be writing Barry's script.

[JoeProBono]

archimedes_death_ray

[C19fan]

Interesting story about Archimedes. The Roman general who was beseiging the city wanted to spare Archimedes but the soldiers found Archimedes working on a math problem and killed him anyway.

[sig226]

I’ve seen other work that suggested the possibility of focused light on Roman ships was feasible at the time. The real problem with this is the Greek Fire part. It’s certainly possible that Archimedes used the stuff, or flaming arrows, etc. to attack the fleet. But no one knows how Greek Fire worked, either.

[Professional Engineer]

Cool!