I didn't get anything wrong... I meant the ballista that is simply needed in battle, not during a siege. Like any archer, it has an ammunition line, but at the same time, it fires an unlimited number of times. If this were a bug, they would have caught it somehow over two add-ons and five patches...

Well, the bug regarding selling artifacts at an inflated price hasn't been caught across all the patches, so maybe this one hasn't either. Players like vbn and Ataman consider this a bug, and I am inclined to do the same. But for the sake of simplifying checks, it could be allowed, although there is such a pitfall as ArtMoney. You wrote to me in chat about a record of 5 hours of battle. (By the way, please clarify if there was an ammunition cart there???) Now then. Did you personally observe this battle live, or was it simply written to you in a letter? Such a battle can be completed in five minutes. Just change the time on the saves at the beginning and end of the fight. I could write to you in a letter that I fought for 12 hours straight. What should we do, boom? How do we check?