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Trebuchets - the superior siege engine. (Disclaimer: probably not medieval)
Nah you're spot on there. Trebuchets are absolutely mediaeval.
Mediaeviael
you ok there bud?
Miaediaeviael
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Medireview
I wish I could have seen that as it happened, live
Invented in ancient China.
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.
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.
Ha! Good point.
... During the medieval period...
IV century BCE is not medieval no matter where you look at it.
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