Timeline for How Do the Catapults at Minas Tirith Work?
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| Apr 4, 2019 at 5:10 | comment | added | Natsumi Matsuura | I have a lot of hands-on trebuchet experience, having built a few dozen of various sizes. Bottom line, in the period when trebuchets were used in combat the normal weight of the stone ball the biggest ones threw was around 100 kg. Those chunks of castle wall that the Gondorian trebuchets hurled were obviously many times heavier than that. So much so that there wouldn't have been enough energy in the counterweight to overcome friction and move the payload at all. | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 4:40 | comment | added | Jenayah | Hi there! Could you maybe edit in a source for this? Or if it's based on your watching/personal experience, clarify it a bit? | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 4:37 | comment | added | amflare | What's the source on this? Are you interpreting a passage from a book? Or eyeballing the trebuchets in the films. | |
| Apr 4, 2019 at 4:35 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Apr 4, 2019 at 4:19 | history | answered | Natsumi Matsuura | CC BY-SA 4.0 |