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[โ€“] PostProcess@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nah you're spot on there. Trebuchets are absolutely mediaeval.

[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think when most people talk about trebuchets, they more specifically mean a counterweight trebuchet, which is first concretely attributed to the Ayyubids in the 12th century.

[โ€“] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Well to be fair, for the intended use of yeeting landlords, burgies and their political pawns over fairly large distances traction trebuchet would be much worse.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Ha! Good point.

[โ€“] PostProcess@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

... During the medieval period...

IV century BCE is not medieval no matter where you look at it.

[โ€“] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

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