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So, is this because Trebuchet are not particularly lethal, or because they were not used much?
by simonebrunozzi 2mo ago
So, is this because Trebuchet are not particularly lethal, or because they were not used much?
- sco1 2mo agoThey typically weren't trying to hit people with them.
- clort 2mo agoTrebuchet were used primarily to hammer the walls of the castle to break them down. Not really possible to aim at a person; the soldiers clambering over the broken walls will do that.
- gyomu 2mo agoPeople didn't really bother recording cause of death for every casualty on medieval battlefields
- agos 2mo agothe key word is "known"
- mr_toad 2mo agoMore like ‘named’. There are accounts of trebuchets causing hundreds of deaths, but individual casualties in medieval battles are rarely identified.
- allturtles 2mo agoThis person is not named, unless you consider Skeleton 150 a name. 'known' is the appropriate word here.
- dullcrisp 2mo agoTrebuchets crushed their victims so hard that they were erased from history.
- mapt 2mo agoThis is the only man known to have died in a medieval siege of a medium-sized boulder falling on him. Trebuchets were used for a variety of purposes in siege warfare, from (uniquely) breaching walls with large boulders to (less uniquely) setting things on fire to (probably) suppressing massed formations of archers with smaller shot. But smaller shot would not leave a characteristic trebuchet injury, it would leave a generic blunt-force trauma injury.
- mr_toad 2mo agoIn some cases they’d hurl dead cattle, people’s heads, and flaming projectiles over the walls to damage morale and potentially damage infrastructure.
- jamiek88 2mo agoAnd to spread disease.
- WalterBright 2mo ago> they’d hurl dead cattle I learned that from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
- mapt 2mo agoI would not want to hurl dead cattle ("Valuable beef primal cuts") across the walls onto a starving populace.
- chermi 2mo agoClearly you guys have never played medieval ii total war!