It was prior to Summers End 2005 when Baron William Freskyn Murray said unto Lord Filipo de Sancto Martino, "You know that table top Siege Engine idea we keep talking about?", "Maybe," replied Lord Filipo, "Is it the one that has beer involved in it?" "Somewhat," said his Excellency, "At Summers End we will have a Table Top Seige weapons tournament." And they did, and both William and Filipo were surprised how many people made table top siege weapons. Some very historically accurate and beautiful and of course Lord Filipo's that was made out of deck scraps. They were even more surprised to hear how many were dissapointed that they did not give the idea enough creedence and did not build a table top siege weapon of their own. Shame, shame... but don't panic

Being that is was so crazy it worked once before, we are doing it again. Basic rules: Only non direct fire siege engines (non ballista types) that will fling a regulation hacki sack at a regulation Jenga tower placed in a regulation box made of regulation 2x4s...

Or the more flowery version: "Catapaults and Trebuchets shall hurl thier payloads over a fortified wall and into a fortified tower. Such engines shall be given points based on damage to said tower and penetrating said fortification at the distances of five, ten and fifteen feet. Lore has it of a fearsome siege engine that destroyed the tower with one mighty blow from fifteen feet out. Aye that fearless and vicious engine was known as "Deck-Scraps 2", so fearsome was this machine that its unknown and somewhat un-famous captain's lovely wife was heard to exclaim during its testing, "No more trebucheting in the house!"

For more details contact Lord Filipo at PhilM@Buffalo.com

There will be awards for the most historical looking engine in the contest as well as most points scored. We will be using the Baron William Freskyn Murray Table Top Rules posted at http://www.rhsiegeguild.info/body_BWFMRules.htm