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10655100 No.10655100 [Reply] [Original]

Is leddit actually correct about Trebuchets being better than catapults?

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>> No.10655104

>>10655100
Why can't I build muscle?

>> No.10655120

>>10655100
no they are not. A trebuchet is a catapult. Its like asking"whats better, a dog or a pitbull?".
Ask those questions on /g/ next time

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>>10655100
To a certain extent, otherwise nobody would have bothered building the more complicated and failure-prone design. However afaik the proximal source of this meme is that the trebuchet unit doesmoe damage than the catapult unit in Age Of Empires 2: Age Of Kings.

>> No.10655147

I guess a traditional catapult is just really hard to reload, because you need to load in lots of potential energy at once.
For trebuchets, you can just empty the weight, lift it up, lock, and then slowly fill the weight back up with rocks or something.

>> No.10655247

>>10655100
Yes, since they're just bigger, better catapults.

>> No.10655533

>>10655120
no you fucking ignorant

>> No.10655547

>>10655147
A traditional catapult was a lot easier to build and assemble in the field. Trebuchets required a lot of specialized knowledge and components to build.
You could literally build a catapult in the matter of hours by cutting a few trees or disassembling a carriage.

T. Carpenter and armchair historian