Talk:Wonder weapons

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Are Wonder Weapons solely a phenomenon of recent history? Wasn't the Longbow a Wonder Weapon at Agincourt? But in that case, it was not a sudden phenomenon, because it's power wasn't taken seriously by the French for a generation. Henry's father certainly used its power against the French, and the English put resources into it, as I recall, allowing only men armed with longbows to hunt in the King's forests.

Or Archemides' contraptions- or the Byzantinne's Liquid fire. Weren't these all wonder weapons?

I am working at a definition here- doesn't a Wonder Weapon carry some romanticism with it- like, here is the Deus ex Machina- the thing that will deliver the big victory in swift order?

-Mak Thorpe 16:28, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

I think Greek fire was certainly a wonder weapon. Tom Harrison ^Talk 14:07, 28 March 2006 (UTC)