Posted on 01/07/2019 8:11:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Random stones would have random flight paths. Consistency makes it easier to hit the same spot over and over.
Been there. Didn’t go in. I’s on a hill. Can’t understand how you can get so many people to charge into certain death. Guess the Normandy invasion straightened me out.
OMG. Is that what the Netflix leftist twits call The Rebel King ? Let’s gets it on. Where is my blue paint. Lol.
:^)
And the trajectory would remain as intended. Also, if it bounced, it would roll back to be used again. ;^)
Burns lived 25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796 (wikipedia), apparently he wrote this in extreme retrospect. :^)
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/scots-wha-hae-scots-who-have.html
That was back when English leaders had big balls. Today’s leaders balls are the size of Ping-Pong balls and couldn’t hurt a fly.
Is that a trebuchet or are you just happy to see me? Mae West.
That’s scary as hell.
That would be a good way to send illegal aliens back. It may take some time, but well worth it in the long run.
:)
That would be a good way to send illegal aliens back. It may take some time, but well worth it in the long run.
:)
The damage would be more after the landing
Archaeologist Samuel Kinirons shown contaminating an ancient artifact with his own bare hand DNA.
This careless behavior by Archaeologist Samuel Kinirons, sort of makes you doubt many of their conclusions. And he is smiling happy about his carelessness.
Cool, I did not know there were sieges involved in that campaign, very cool!
Now if they could just find that bridge...
Accuracy at range = firepower overmatch.
The stone spheres were more uniform in trajectory than odd-shaped rocks, which is important when you’re trying to peck, peck, peck a breach through a castle wall. You have to keep hitting the same limited area time after time to get results.
Better ammo means a shorter siege and less money paid to the troops to keep them on the job. And if the soldiers see you’re making progress on the wall, they’ll stick around in anticipation of the ravishing and pillaging to come.
Thanks for the thoughtful answers. I find it interesting that they had rudimentary knowledge of ballistics, aerodynamics, and the trade offs of time spent creating better projectiles vs the cost of keeping an army in the field and more precise cumulative hits on the target. Obviously none of it was mathematically quantified, but they arrived at more optimal solutions through trial and error. They had to determine when a projectile was good enough to lob and get the stone cutters onto the next rock.
Good thinking by you guys and those ancient peoples!
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