Not only do the Outlaw Dogs eat, dress, and sword fight like folk from the Middle Ages, but they also build huge siege weapons- and Daily Planet got the inside look!
@brutus brutalis they did win...the real Nazi's became US citizens via project paperclip giving us organizations like NASA and the CIA by way of the OSS...it's all declassified, in fact I am sure there are several youtube videos about it. Hitler and his boys went to Argentina.
What if a shotgun shell stuck inside the weapon when the first shotgun was made? They need to try it and make sure the gun is safe for the *user* Yes, I know the jokes, I only share my thought unless anyone got misunderstand.
The English built what was at the time, the world's largest trebuchet outside of Falkirk castle in Scotland, they called it 'Warwolf.' The castle had already surrendered, but king Edward didn't want to waste the trebuchet as it took three months to build, so ordered they fire on the castle anyway.
Exactly heheh this is just mind boggling, isnt it directing 101 to pit all effort in the story?? The visuals and cgi and soundtrack and all the special effects are just to AMPLIFY the story itself if game of thrones was a house the story is the bulding blocks and the cgi,cinematics... are rhe roof they cleaely built the roof before the foundation, it will collapse
@@patrickbaitman8336 but Colins is probably a lot more stable and can take more weight because it’s made out of metal. Wheels also help to transfer more energy into the projectile.
Colin's trebuchet seemed to be loaded heavier, so he throws quite a bit further. If he fixed his sling mechanism and lodges his wheels in the ground he might throw it even further
@@blise518B hmm, I'm afraid I need to correct you a bit here. 🤔 First point: A trebuchet made out of metal is in fact less stable then one that is made out of wood. Might sound counter intuitive but let me explain: Metal is of course a much harder and stronger material than wood. But that is actually a bad thing in this case. Because due to it being harder it also means that it is more rigid and stiff. Which is a bad thing, cause we are dealing with an immense amount of force put on to the mechanisms, joints and most importantly the shaft when the contraption is shot. So therefore wood is a better solution as a construction material for a device like this one because it has a certain amount of needed flex to compensate the impact of the transferred energy. Basically: Harder material doesn't necessarily mean superior. Really depends on context and requirements. Second point: Wheels would only help to decrease the amount of transferred energy a bit. The trebuchet needs to be properly settled in a solid manner in order for the counterweight mechanism to function optimally. Wheels just gives the machine more unwanted wiggle. (Which in the end works anyways though. I guess a fixed one would just be the 'optimal' solution....) Hope that made sense 🖖
Kriegerdammerung it's from reddit, the subreddit r/trebuchetmemes are known for insisting that trebuchets are superior to other catapults. The running gag is that no other siege weapon is able to launch a 90 kg projectile 300 meters. Probably some serious armchair siege engineer commented this long ago and people kept repeating it until it lost all connection to the original comment.
I built my own trebuchet several years ago. One thing they could improve on is the release point. The release is a bit too late. You want the release to be at the point at which the counterweight jerks forward at the bottom of the pull. They could achieve this by shortening the sling ropes. Wonderful piece of machinery!
@@rubenheymans1988 irl they can't so that's why people build castles. It's invincible before cannons are invented (not far later than trebuchet though)
@@rubenheymans1988The easy answer is throw bigger stones and build bigger tebuchets( examples: the Warwolf at Stirling castle). But it has other uses besides destroying walls such as flinging animal corpses to spread disease, targetting specific buildings behind the walls, targetting the defenders on top of the ramparts, etc. There are anumber of creative and destructive ways trebuchets were sued for.
@@user-ic3jc1pg8kNot quite, it largely depends on the available resources and the wealth of the guy funding it. During the Crusades Richard the Lionheart had 2 such trebuchet capable of throwing a metric ton(a small car), one was called “God’s own sling/catapult” and the other “Bad neighbour”. So imagine chucking a small car at a city over the course of several days, weeks, or even months. Maybe it won’t break at first but if the walls have any weak spots at all it might crack at the continued pressure. And even if the walls withstand the attacks then I’m sure the houses inside won’t survive being crushed by the boulders.
France builds a medieval castle and a 16th century tall ship. Germans are building and testing better trabuchets, each day more and more people are into historical european martial arts (HEMA), weapons and armor... could it be that Einstein was wrong and in fact the 3rd world war was to be the medieval one?
@@MarkChimes no, but he implied that the 3rd would be world devastating weapons (H bombs and such) and the 4th would be fought with sticks..... i recon the 3rd would be with this
Germans have a wonderful dry sense of humour, but you need to look for it, they don't advertise it. There is also some great German food. You should visit sometime.
Sir, you are *HEAVILY* misinformed, if you believe that we neither can't do humour, nor cooking. Our love for bread, meat and potatoes let's us make the finest cuisine in that regard you could get in all of europe. Just eat at a good reasteraunt and you'll know. And we just have a differen sort of humour that's still done well. We enjoy dark and griddy humour. That's what we're good at. *Cease thy silly prejudices.*
Also known as the Bad Neighbor. It was either Scientific American or the Smithsonian magazine, some time in the 80's, that had an article about a couple of retired British men that built what might have the first trebuchet made since gun powder and cannons made them obsolete centuries ago. Theirs was pretty big - they tossed an upright piano and a small car (Austin Healy, sans engine). My son and I made one out of Popsicle sticks to throw marbles.
Lol I thought that. Go back thirty years maybe and you get to live in that sweet spot before the internet but after everyone is done shitting themselves to death, cutting hands off over stolen bread and praying that their 9th child will finally be the one to live to ten.
I’ve always been fascinated with trebuchet’s. First from reading about them and seeing pictures/illustrations, more recently on RU-vid actual demonstrations. This one is by far the best I’ve seen!👍
"Beautiful day for a battle!" - Foltest, the king of Temeria, Prince of Sodden, sovereign of Pontar and Mahakam, suzerain of Ellander, Senior protector of Brugge, Angren and Riverdell while standing next to a massive trebuchet right before the start of the battle for castle La Valette.
As a german, it's incredibly satisfying to watch us learn the art of medieval warfare all the while the french are rebuilding castles. If given the chance, I might sign myself up for this as well. Can't wait to try it out.
well documented: trebuchets work better if the whole thing is mounted on wheels. when you fire, the weight drops straight down in a straight line, while the chassis moves back and forth.
Sending 70% of a castle's army out into the field to face a practically infinite enemy is also probably not a good idea. Those trebuchets should have stayed in the castle wit the army
All that effort and the range was something like 1/4 of what machine of that size should manage. The "sling" was way too long for example. It was practically dropping the stones. There were almost no ballistic trajectory at all. Good looking machine though.
If they would do it correctly it could launch a stone 800 meters away... however they said that the spectators will be close to the target, and that cannot be done with extreme range as it will leave more chance for missing the target.
I expect they were deliberately not pushing the range for safety reasons. The shot needs to be completely predictable, and they can't afford to put to much stress on the trebuchet itself - the forces involved mean that an unexpected breakage of the mechanism could easily result in injuries or even deaths. Also it would be a pain to retrieve the shot every time if it went much further.
Modern day health and safety has a lot to do with this. Throwing caution to the wind it would be quite easy to double the machine power, how many "gun crew do you mind losing?
Incredible and very interesting video. My sincere compliments from an Italian Archer. Without any doubt, one of the most beautiful video made on this particular machine ciao Fabio
The Poles aren’t worried about a German invasion. Germany is too busy getting invaded by the same Islamist invaders that they were launching crusades against in medieval times. With as good as they are at surrendering nowadays, even the French are starting to look braver.
@@WranglerSlim That's bullshit, we don't care about muslim invasion it's not our problem our borders are closed. Poland has never participated in the crusades, we fought the Ottomans as equals. And every time when people die in terrorist attacks in Germany, we think "oh that's a poo poo, it's a pity they're such morons, their problem, they shouldn't support Nord Stream 2, maybe than we would care". Also France is worse than Germany.
@@raymondo162 Here's my big one. Half the size of the one above. I'm building a 5 story one too, but a Whipper Trebuchet. It will have over a 1,500 meter range, and set a new world distance record.
@@raymondo162 The one in my video is the largest wooden one of its kind ever built, and the second largest Whipper of any kind ever built, by a few feet. I also built the largest, most powerful Inswinger Ballista in the world.
Can I join please? This lifestyle definitely had its charms! I mean, seriously, these guys combine a modern-day lifestyle with a Medieval, outdoor lifestyle. No nonsense like Social Media and such, but real proper team work. And 5:47 just proves how satisfying that really can be!
@@Francois_Dupont c'mon, man. its a2-month-old joke. of course, I know the crusades weren't a bunch of medieval guys playing with trebuchets. also its "sense when did the Islamic state have any castles" bad grammar. and... Islam did have fortified castle-like buildings.
@@snippykeegan if you are going to lecture a French person about english grammar first start using correct words not contraction like "c'mon" and its not "sense" its since. *click* screensaved into my fringe folder.
@@peteraugust5295 You would imagine that the shots would be aimed for a weak point, wood, or other trebuchets. that 75kg rock would destroy most things it touches including castle walls, it doesn't look like it does much because it's hitting the dirt in a very anticlimactic fashion and the dirt is absorbing the majority of the impact... you know... except for the massive hole it created. o7
@@atmos5569 It is straight out hitting a beam and really doesnt do to much damage. If a Trebuche would take down a wall easily, sieges wouldnt have gone on for weeks or even month.
Good job. However, we remember that that trebuchet would be one of the small ones, because some could throw stone balls weighing 1500 kg (15 quintals), as the Venetians did in the fifteenth century by besieging Gorizia.
The trebuchet "Warwolf"at the siege of Stirling Castle: "The Warwolf could reportedly accurately hurl rocks weighing as much as three hundred pounds (140 kg) from distance of 200 meters and level a large section of the curtain wall." When the Scots saw the machine they tried to surrender. It was refused. The siege continued.
@@chipdale2571 Ok that's a cool story, but trébuchet still has a French name, and was first introduced by France from Bretagne to the Etats Chrétiens d'Orient in the holy land.
@@political4203 nope nope nope, the refugees are not refugees after crossing the first land in peace, then they become immigrants. And EU have yurned into a monster akin to what hiyler envisioned in mein kampf. I say, use the trebuche at the parliament and teach those greasy politicians that mother europe does not tolerate political greed and self Interest. Making rich countries pay for other countries failures are not acceptable. If a nation is mismanaged and close to fall, let it fall and rise by it's own power, if it can not. Then it was doomed to history in its first place.
@@political4203 if you bail someone out each time they fail, they never learn. If things like the eu are suffered to exist then they will be the doom of more than good is. I do think they have brought a lot of good, but they have become too big and too influential. And the time to say no is already past for some. The institution have become power hungry and are undermining national sovereignty, and if someone tries to say no they gets busted by various means, freely given by inept politicians. In a few decades there will be no more nations left, all assimilated I to a United states of Europe, a federation of unimaginable horrors. As they can do whatever they please in Brussels
@@kooroshrostami27 you really think you care about accuracy in that type of battle? You just fire salves of many many arrows....nobody cares about accuracy there.