That's complete bullshit. Since when is the trebuchet a french design? It was probably invented by the Byzantins and came to Europe in the 12th century. Trebuchet is just the french name for it. It's also called Palida, Blide or Tribok (and has probably several other names). And neither is the catapult from Britain. This claim is just stupid. Catapults were probably developed in Syracuse the 4th century B.C. And what about the discrimination between "Force" and "physics based"? Believe it or not, force is one of the most basic units of physics, so that comment makes no sense whatsoever and you clearly do not know much. The modes of action of both the standard catapult and the trebuchet are of course force-based. Only the kinds of force they work with are different. The catapult works with tractive and elastic force while the trebuchet works with gravity and leverage force. Maybe you should research a little bit before you answer a question in a subject you don't know a thing about.
This is awesome! Wish I did more productive things with my time.
this is great it would be cooler if the projectile was flaming tho.
imagine if it came up and whacked em in the face
what is the difference between a trebuchet and a catapult?
A trebuchet is an underclass of a catapult.
a trebuchet is. french and more physics baced wereas a catapult is british and more force baced
That's complete bullshit. Since when is the trebuchet a french design? It was probably invented by the Byzantins and came to Europe in the 12th century. Trebuchet is just the french name for it. It's also called Palida, Blide or Tribok (and has probably several other names). And neither is the catapult from Britain. This claim is just stupid. Catapults were probably developed in Syracuse the 4th century B.C. And what about the discrimination between "Force" and "physics based"? Believe it or not, force is one of the most basic units of physics, so that comment makes no sense whatsoever and you clearly do not know much. The modes of action of both the standard catapult and the trebuchet are of course force-based. Only the kinds of force they work with are different. The catapult works with tractive and elastic force while the trebuchet works with gravity and leverage force. Maybe you should research a little bit before you answer a question in a subject you don't know a thing about.