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We had had, in the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the siege, heavy rain. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 41, Sentence #26)

In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whole point of the supposedly coordinated attack, the enemy generalship apparently decided to leave the tactic in question in the manuals, where its peril was considerably minimized. "You are no Merchant," had said a man, startled. "I think he be not Kenneth Statercounter," had said a council member, then in a begrimed tunic, bearing a basket of rocks to be carried to the parapet. We had had, in the fifteenth and sixteenth day of the siege, heavy rain. This was beneficial to Mytilene. Catapult cordage, heavy with water, rendered their engines, of which, as noted, there were three, inoperative. One gathers that the "artillery men," so little versed in the technology they were attempting to exploit, had not anticipated the effect of rain and moisture on the efficiency of their machines. - (Avengers of Gor)