“They would have been pulled up to a castle, maybe 200-300m away and they could have launched rocks, boulders and flaming boulders into castles,”…
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nonailsleft@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What’s the distance on those things?
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Shard@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And cheese my cows. They could launch cows as well.
nullPointer@programming.dev 2 years ago
search YouTube “punkin chunkin”
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
1000 meters easy.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Depends on the mass of the projectile, and how the throwing arm is tuned.
If its release is tuned for distance and they’re flinging period-accurate projectiles, tuned firmly distance a typical period tree could throw stones about 300 meters.
Depending on the kind of fortifications they were against (and if they had siege engines of their own, or other artillery- bow and arrows, whatever) they might set up a little closer and tune instead for more forward velocity rather than range.
The typical mass was about 200-300 kilograms, or a small sedan. You could go heavier, but that typically reduced range.
scutiger@lemmy.world 2 years ago
A small sedan weighs about twice as much as that
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Get out of here with your facts.
autriyo@feddit.org 2 years ago
You sent me down a little rabbit hole, depending on how one defines sedan, the lightest I could find is the Peel P50 at roughly 60 kg. A better fit weight wise could be the Isetta at roughly 350 kg.
But neither option, including the robin feels like a proper sedan to me, and only the robin really checks the basic requirements.
Afaik the term “sedan” doesn’t really define the amount of wheels, but I don’t tend to think of a three wheeled vehicle.
So the first four wheeled sedan style car that came to mind was the Trabant, but that’s still 600kg.
Idk what the point of this text is…
Have a nice day, I guess?