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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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 🖖
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.
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.
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
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.
@@蘑菇-f1zNot 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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@paramed2026 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.
@@paramed2026 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
What a trebuchet does better than a girlfriend >Intimidation to opposing forces >The ability to conquer a stronghold >You can do whatever you want with it, it is yours. >Once you've created it, it no longer takes money from your bank account >Does not cause drama, it only solves drama >Would make love to you whenever you wanted if it could. >Great around you and the boys.
actually they could fire large stones for over 500 meters, they did not fill the counterweight completely and the sling was a lot more longer to allow for a short ranged yet predicteble shot, becouse they will fire this on an event, they cannot afford to shoot half a mile and risk injuring spectators.
I've made & used reproduction trebuchets. And I gained an insight that I don't see expressed in any modern reconstructions. One observes in the few contemporary Medieval images throwing arms that are thinner than modern renditions. These Medieval throwing arms are shown to appear as bound composites of several smaller shafts. What I found by reproducing similar throwing arms is that the throwing arm flexes and bends BEFORE the projectile is launched. This occurs early in the throwing arm's rotation. The shaft remains bent until the end when it snaps forward as the rotation ends! In effect, the shaft bends as would a wooden bow, storing energy before the release. I noticed that the range of the thrown projectile was greater as a result. Stated another way, the inertia of the projectile in the sling is such that the falling counter weight at first hardly moves the projectile on the slide, but it does bend the throwing arm as if pulling an arrow in a long bow. And once the projectile does accelerate, that acceleration is not determined by the mass of the counter weight alone but is supplemented by the spring action of the bow-like throwing arm. The TWO sources of kinetic energy, timed properly, throw the projectile faster than the action of the counter weight alone. The throwing arm then seems to really "snap" the stone up and out. Try it! It works. I've incorporated it in mine and it makes a real difference.
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.
They are releasing too late for maximum range. The projectile should leave between 30° and 45° from horizontal, not 0° as they are doing. Just like how a quarterback doesn't throw a football horizontally, but upwards.
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
I don't know what they were celebrating about because the range was pathetic. The medieval trebuchets had a range that at least put them out of range of bowshot, for obvious reasons. Did not optimize the angle of release, did not allow for maximum acceleration and finally they did not grease the machine. Are they even engineers????
Often the crew worked during the night when the defenders couldn't see them. The first shot will be incendiary, which served to light up the enemy's fortification.
@@kovona This trebuchet is not the same as the types used in medieval times. Obviously a redesign is necessary to get the angles right. I doubt somebody who doesn't know how to grease a machine can achieve it.
@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 They surely could fire further but that would be to dangerous and not needed. The people wont really see an impact in 800m and the wind would influence the projectile to much.
@@Hussar-bt8sv 1:30 "The distance is 136 meters", I thought that would sort of be the maximum. But okay, if he says the maximum distance was higher I missed it!
@@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.
For the last shot they researched the chemistry upgrade.
LOL
Strike a building with a sword, and it burns!!!
11
Only the real niggas get this
Civ?
Germany rebuilding their military to be compliant with the Treaty of Versaille c. 1919
meh still enough to conquer France!
@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.
A more peaceful place
Obviously, however that’s what has been prophesied to happen.
We can’t get to the end of the world without Israel coming back
@@h2w25 the state of Israel is an evil nation which rejects God. The Catholic Church is Israel.
Honestly wish there was more medival events like this around the world. . . It is a better experience than sitting at home doing pretty much nothing.
Then do something fcs 😉
are you watching this video from home? or watching it while in a medieval event?..🤔
then gtfo more
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?
He said he didn't know with what weapons WW3 will be thought. Might well be trebuchets. 😉
@@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
seems like germany is prepared to take the french medieval castle... :D
@@datblackdoge683 damn it, this is the reason why we cant have nice things
@@Fede_uyz You can't, Germany can tho :D
"Now we are ready for our event"
Neighbours of Germany sweating nervously
Un magnifique ingénieux système de contre-poids permettant de lancer des projectiles de 90kg à plus de 300m.
Grandiose
5:50, when you say that the enemy king spent four elixir and you mean it!
Why they haven't gone directly to the target and destroyed it by hand. It is much more faster and effective?
damm, the new stronghold game has sick graphics 🔥
You guys are the best
Her: He's probably with another girl.
Me and the guys 5:50 🔥🔥🔥
Talk about going Medieval on your ass; these guys should have been on Game of Thrones in a battle siege....
So,. let's bring it to the wall of The Old Jerusalem.
"Let Me show you it's features"
The last thing France heard
HA HA HA HA
lol
Joergesprave is the best
Thanks and Bye Bye!
France was the greatest power in Europe from 987 to 1919.
her: he's probably with another girl
me and the boys:
Trebuchet gang!!!!
Let us crusade brothers
Playing with your balls and poles.
i shall join
@@kristofprogamer8746
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
This is quality UA-cam right here.
You're aware of colin furze then?
Amen
@@dogefort8410 The last time I checked he was having some problems, Maybe he should watch this video.
When do you release the next Leveldesign?
@@dogefort8410 FCC cfrrfttttdswssydgfygvjbv
Wait trebs don't fire every 10 seconds and don't pack / unpack in 7 seconds?
Casa Xtreme not like in age of empires eh?
Also disappointed when i went to church. Priest didn't do the "Wololoo"
10 seconds reload? It takes 180 seconds to go from the feudal age to the castle age, 10 seconds is like 2-3 years.
@@emillebest you follow the wrong religion my friend
@@georgplazI'm pagan now.
When the allies restrict your army size into oblivion, but you still try to find a way to bombard Paris.
London and Washington
We need to make zis bigger Hans!
paris is blowing itself up at least
@@brohemian yep
import third world into their country, weakening them without firing a single shot.
France: builds medieval castle.
Germany: starts developing humongous trebauchets.
France: Ah shit, here we go again.
France:Surrenders
@Maxime Bariteau aaaaand thats why nobody will help you next time.
@Maxime Bariteau ohhhh poor french boi
France: Gets new flag (blank)
Maxime Bariteau are you franch?
"We need to destroy this shed to prove that the trebuchet is safe!"
Well I guess they would not want someone elses shed destroyed.... Or do they... :P
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.
5:49 Nobody has anything to say about that awesome sound? Sounds like an incoming asteroid or something!
It was so damn badass
Because it 𝙄𝙎
Imagine living in a medieval castle and seeing that coming towards the portcullis.
Imagine if they explode.... Imagine first
Better a lot of stones wrapped in burning rags, the sounds of dozens of flying fighters .. Well, or what sounded like that at that time?
Roses are red,
water comes in liters,
a trebuchet uses a counterweight to launch a 90kg stone projectile over 300 meters.
What is red in Imperial?
@@l.ahrens231 In SI units it is a wavelength 625-740 nanometres. If you take the smallest imperial unit (thou) it would be 0,025 to 0,029 thou.
@@ErikB605 are you sure?
@@ErikB605 Best possible answer. Thanks
@Doctor BeBop {"red" ∈ COLORS} ≙ {(x,y): x∈ℝ, y∈Unit: 2.5*10^-2
Just make sure you keep your trebuchet behind your troops, unlike some unsullied....
Yeah that battle had a lot of errors
This ^^
And why would you send your cavalry in first?
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
They could only shoot 1 shot anyway. I mean it takes mitutes to reload and you could hurt your own troops if it is in the back.
Somewhere near to the german-polish border...
They're gonna go west first cuz the French r building a medieval castle :P
German Czech Border ;)
POLAND:
*OH NO*
@@SkyForceOne2 sorry but the French would have surendered by now if they had put it near the french.
"You all will see who is the owner of Silesia and Pomerania"
French solider: "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries"
English knight: Gets triggered
German artillery: "Feuer!"
The only thing that could save France is an army of mimes making enormous walls, but their instructor surrendered first.
@@kairinase 😂😂😂
* German artillery hits strong castle walls made of rock instead of wooden pallets *
It's not very effective...
Stop you English kinighit. I will fart in your general direction. Go away or I will taunt you a second time.
Germany didnt exist since this time you damn idiots
Ah the superior siege weapon riseth again
Not quite 90kg and 300 meters but they're definitely getting there!
@@Bruh69_420 General Kenobi!
If he installed a whipper trebuchet would have capabilities of 900meters or more
I have read this joke like seven times, I can't understand it because the context is unknown to me. Could you explain me please?
@@Kris.G The Negotiator
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.
Anyone else here after Colin Furze built his own trebuchet?
Yep, I wonder which one is bigger
@@Danokh This one seems bigger, thiccer, more period correct, and more accurate.
@@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 🖖
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.
Thus destroying/damaging a castle that probably took 10 years to build...and which was about to be theirs! What a douche.
Thats good, imagine the disappointment when they dont fire the damn thing after you spent 3 months building it
@@MrSebeppel that would suck I guess, but they did fire it quite a few times.
They also made the defenders go back inside and man the walls while they fired it
@@seanmessick9330 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
6:06
German guy: are we happy?
Me: I'm actually a little depress...
Everyone else: *YEAAAAAH*
Me: ok
Of course they're happy!
They've got a fecking trebuchet!!!!
"There was no facebook or ppl playing with Iphones". It takes only going back 10-20 years for that, not 1000
that does not make their statement wrong. Tryhard smartass
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.
700 years but yes
same thoughts
@@onepointufo no, but it makes less relevant
class is going to germany
girls: omg maybd we'll see heidi klumm
boys:
Who would like to see that bloody betrayer?
heidi klum lives in america since the 90s lol
Nobody wants to see that miserable Scarecrow.
stories, elephants
stop insulting mathematics and measurements
Its the american way of thinking
They measure things in bald eagles per football camps
You need to be able to make people invision a comparison of the size and weight. If it's all numbers, the sense kinda gets lost.
about 13 jumping jack tall and weight like something around 40 big books!
american: WOAH!!!
@@Francois_Dupont we are a more practical and direct people.
Wahnsinnige Konstrution! Respekt an alle, die da mitgemacht haben!
I thought they were for firing only once during blind dothraki charges?
Spoilers dude hahaha
Spending time reloading ineffective weapons minutes before the onslaught... probably not time well spent.
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
They shouldve just turtled inside the castle and swept the masses with dragonfire guess most of em wanted to die
Yeah, the dead aren't exactly known as expert archers
Damn kids Trebuchet'd a flaming boulder through my window again. That's the third house this year.
Haha xD
I want to see the video of how the kids get the boulder to 'flame'
I'm imagining an old Scottish king saying that about the English.
Anyone here because of Age of Empires II?
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!
also when the stone hit the pole, it barely moved, irl how could they destroy stone castles with this?
@@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.
@@蘑菇-f1zNot 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.
@@蘑菇-f1zTrebuchets were in no hurry. Over the course of two weeks their rock slinging every ten mins would do it’s job I can assure you!
"Somebody pimped up this trebuchet!" - Marcus Aurelius
a classic quote.
Legend says Aurelius' trebuchet had chrome wheels and sick bass.
"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.
Drei, zwei, eins, feuer! I trust German engineers - they know their stuff.
@Samuel Davidson is that a jojo reference
and the one stanza that we don't sing
@Samuel Davidson back in the good ol' days :)
Yeah, but it will require far more expensive maintenance than a Japanese one. Make sure you purchase the extended warrantee...
Finally a place where I can unload my outdated trebouchet memes
where they at thou
Post them already
Did it trigger anyone else that the preview only showed a ballista?
I triggered that they didnt balance their bolt well so it only flopped around in the air
No.
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.
5:05 looks like it launches fairly quick
Typical polish person seeing this:
*OH NO*
A typical Polish Hussar: Mieczysław, put wings on a horses... 😑
@@10hawell
Forget horse!
*THEY GOT PANZERS*
@@hatter3555 In WWII, Poland also had tanks, and the Germans also had cavalry. So just let Bolesław mount wings on tanks...
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.
Thanks to Colin Furze, UA-cam thinks I like trebuchets now!
I guess its not wrong haha
TL;DR: lube makes everything better
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.
Well you need to have wooden wheels that A) can hold the weight and B) can move on muddy ground. Those would be some big wheels.
@@allrad4911 Square logs on the ground, round logs underneath the trebuchet. Its going back and forth so you don't need to have actual wheels.
a guy named collin furze on yt built a way more impressive trebuchet that can fire larger objects and farther that is easier to re load in a week or 2
True, but his release mechanism and slings are weak compared to the German ones.
He needs to get leather slings and copy their release mech.
This trebutchet isn't build for any YT video, it's just for a festival for a few hundred people each year.
And for that it's impressive
Germans might not me the most humerous people or cook the most gourmet cuisine, but their engineering has always been top tier
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.
1:36 well thats one way to measure weight. Have you heard of metric system, eh?
With all that hard work and suddenly random enemy WOLOLOed the trebs
Really cool how I get this after watching colin furzes video
How does it compare to Colin furze’s?
Well done guys, that was amazing to see something out of the middle ages in action and with flames 👌
Colin Furze fans: fascinating…
seeing it in real life makes you realize how damn scary it must've been to be on the other side of that machine during a battle or a siege
and imagining multiple of those things would be firing non-stop for months
crazy how little damage that 75kg rock does after flying 100meters thru the air.
bruh if that shit hits a castle then the castles done.
@@FLATSTONE definitely not. Not even close.
@@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.
When they invented walls under build under degree not straight, those walls even survived canon fire... :)
Bad Neighbour
And their cheerful war cry afterwards
Mantap
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.
no archers taking shots at them... come on
If you built your trebuchet properly then archers should be out of range.
archers won't be able to shoot you from a castle that's 300m away.
@@kooroshrostami27 xD u seriously have no clue of bows obviously.
@@johannesneumann5987 accuracy at 300m is very low it's about the maximum range that long bows can shoot
@@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.
At the start of this video i thought....."They should light the stone on fire"
They delivered! Pretty cool!
youtube knows what's up
Superior siege engine gang rise up
damn, wish I had this kind of a friends activities in the weekend..
"Also gut,we are ready to shoot"
Netter Reim/nice rhyme :D
The hanger axle shifted on my big treb one time. It caused some damage, but I fixed it and installed axle locks.
jolly well done, you
@@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.
French: building castle.
Germany: 5:48
Trébuchet is a French invention sir.
But in france they're building a castle using only medival methods rn.
And this trebuchet was built by germans in Germany.
@@BruneSixtineNo it is not. It first appeared in Asia. I found it in several sources. There it was invented long before France so...
@@simon6157 Ah yes you're right
@@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.
Medieval Enthusiasts: [Build Trebuchet]
EU Government _"Am I a joke to you?"_
*Laughs in flaming stone*
Fuck EU tbh
The KebabRemover28 why? The EU is awesome apart from them passively murdering refugees which is terrible...
@@paramed2026 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.
Commissar Ankerstjerne ehh what the fuck
@@paramed2026 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
What a trebuchet does better than a girlfriend
>Intimidation to opposing forces
>The ability to conquer a stronghold
>You can do whatever you want with it, it is yours.
>Once you've created it, it no longer takes money from your bank account
>Does not cause drama, it only solves drama
>Would make love to you whenever you wanted if it could.
>Great around you and the boys.
Uhm... Plus, you can set it on fire. Uhm...
Shouldn't this be throwing 90KG stones over 300 meters?
Nope..... trabuchets that large were an oddity and by no means standard. Normal trabuchets are more like the old one they had
@@Fede_uyz it's a joke dude 😂
actually they could fire large stones for over 500 meters, they did not fill the counterweight completely and the sling was a lot more longer to allow for a short ranged yet predicteble shot, becouse they will fire this on an event, they cannot afford to shoot half a mile and risk injuring spectators.
Wooden Trebuchet **fires**
Modern artillery tank: Am i a joke to you?
No, you're the punchline!
it would be, "release!"
Colin Furze sent me here
same 😂😂
1 Point for the Holy Roman Empire!
This absolute unit of the superior siege engine brings a tear to my eye
And here I am sitting in an office for a living....
They do this in their free time
This is my dream job, try working at a construction.
Colin's furze
I've made & used reproduction trebuchets. And I gained an insight that I don't see expressed in any modern reconstructions. One observes in the few contemporary Medieval images throwing arms that are thinner than modern renditions. These Medieval throwing arms are shown to appear as bound composites of several smaller shafts. What I found by reproducing similar throwing arms is that the throwing arm flexes and bends BEFORE the projectile is launched. This occurs early in the throwing arm's rotation. The shaft remains bent until the end when it snaps forward as the rotation ends! In effect, the shaft bends as would a wooden bow, storing energy before the release. I noticed that the range of the thrown projectile was greater as a result. Stated another way, the inertia of the projectile in the sling is such that the falling counter weight at first hardly moves the projectile on the slide, but it does bend the throwing arm as if pulling an arrow in a long bow. And once the projectile does accelerate, that acceleration is not determined by the mass of the counter weight alone but is supplemented by the spring action of the bow-like throwing arm. The TWO sources of kinetic energy, timed properly, throw the projectile faster than the action of the counter weight alone. The throwing arm then seems to really "snap" the stone up and out. Try it! It works. I've incorporated it in mine and it makes a real difference.
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.
Ehrenmänner! Größten Respekt vor diesem Handwerk!
5:40 - Nilfgaardians trying out their new tribuchets against Redania. The power of Nilfgaardian Engineering. 🧐
@Mograine You beat me And I'll have a rare card for your collection.
Remember the Nilfgardian armor?
They are releasing too late for maximum range. The projectile should leave between 30° and 45° from horizontal, not 0° as they are doing. Just like how a quarterback doesn't throw a football horizontally, but upwards.
I’ve got a feeling Colin Furze and magic UA-cam recommendations is going to bring a few randies over here hahah
0:11 We live in a time where we can see a recently built medieval super weapon and a flying aircraft behind it. At least in Germany.
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
Bella
Had a dispute with a neighbour who put up a new fence which encroached 2cm into my garden, so I built one of these.
You think hundreds of years from now, people are going to be rebuilding an m1 abrams tank for a “2000s” festival of some kind
I don't know what they were celebrating about because the range was pathetic. The medieval trebuchets had a range that at least put them out of range of bowshot, for obvious reasons. Did not optimize the angle of release, did not allow for maximum acceleration and finally they did not grease the machine. Are they even engineers????
Often the crew worked during the night when the defenders couldn't see them. The first shot will be incendiary, which served to light up the enemy's fortification.
@@kovona This trebuchet is not the same as the types used in medieval times. Obviously a redesign is necessary to get the angles right. I doubt somebody who doesn't know how to grease a machine can achieve it.
@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 They surely could fire further but that would be to dangerous and not needed. The people wont really see an impact in 800m and the wind would influence the projectile to much.
@@thewaterdrop123 It hardly hit the target 50 meters away!
@@toraguchitoraguchi9154 the target is 136m away
'largest in continental Europe' that's because the uk has a bigger one. Warwolf
I believe the biggest one is in New Zealand, they use it for throwing cars
Scotland is stronk
Mexicano forces taking down the wall, the siege of america, bunette fields, 2022, colorized, hd 1080p, hot off the table
Don't forget to research ballistics and chemistry.
Great build. Good testing and adjustment.
PewDiePie: *TREBUCHET!*
Wait, 130 meters? Haha that feels sort of underwhelming. Somehow I was under the impression trebuchets would fire hundreds of meters. Huh!
they do tho :)
@@MrCalbber Oh so this was just a small one?
@@xxxx85 He said 300 meters
@@Hussar-bt8sv 1:30 "The distance is 136 meters", I thought that would sort of be the maximum. But okay, if he says the maximum distance was higher I missed it!
@@xxxx85 it all depends of the counterweight and projectile weight, but yea they sadly don't launch 800m haha
I guess in medieval sieges, the damage of flame is more psychological than physical.
Eğer yapılar tahtadansa, şehirde yangın çıkartmak içinde kullanıyorlardır
1:45 loading up the counterweight. Girl does most heavy lifting 😂
gender equality
That looked freaking amazing :D
5:49 Now that's BADASS!!
I just think it seems impractical
Why would anyone do it?
@@TheMorfra To burn dem mf
well you have the chance to light something in that castle on fire. They used a lot of wood big in those days
Two words... BAD ASS! Jeez Louise... Respeckt, yo!
"I'm gonna send a flaming rock smashing into the structure to prove it's safe"
back in my day, we called this the crusades.
do you even know what a crusade is? since when does the islamic state had any castle?
@@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.