The Trebuchet - An Overview

During the siege of Tenochtitlan, the Spanish, hoping to save on gunpowder, decided to construct a Trebuchet. Accounts say that the first shot of the Trebuchet went directly upwards and came back down and destroyed the Trebuchet. This was one of the last military uses of the Trebuchet and its only combat use in the Americas.

At Stirling the Scots saw the immense size of Warwolf and decided to surrender then and there. Edward actually rejected their surrender request at first and fired a single shot, which demolished an entire wall of Stirling Castle, following which he then accepted the surrender. His engineers had spent 3 months building Warwolf, and he wanted to see it in action!

I like that one of the longest clips was a trebuchet tossing war elephants.

In 2007 for shop class the teacher split us up in groups of 5 and we had to make trebuchets. The tallest was like 10ft. We used 5 old v8 engine heads as weights and launched softballs,watermelons and a lawnmower piston filled with lead. Fun times that was

TREMBLE BEFORE THE TREBUCHET! Only 42 years after Top Tier Trebuchet War Wolf, cannons were used at the Battle of Crecy.

This is one of the last YT channels that does it right! No self promotion, no BS filler, just gets right to the topic. Always well done and full of cool info. Thanks for continuing to do it the right way!

1:07 Hannibal discovered the cheat code to win every siege

The chicken at 0:53 be like: why are they using a trebuchet on me?

Two things of note: 1) Torsion powered catapults can reach higher launch velocities, but cannot be upscaled as much. 2) The sling on trebuchets greatly increases velocity and range, but is tricky to adjust. Adjustment however also allows setting the range by deciding on the timing of the release.

Johnny watches anime plays video games AND watches neebs gaming?! He truly is a man of culture

I genuinely mean this in the best way: the mic quality ranges so wildly between videos over the years, between channels, and even between parts of the video, that I never quite know what to expect. It honestly is great. It makes these videos feel really comfortable and timeless, genuine. Is this video new? From 5 years ago? Who knows! It's very easy to just binge these videos, which I've now done several times at different points. Of course the presentation and refinement of the format is clear from older videos to new ones, and I'm aware of just how much effort must go into these.

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a trebuchet

That was quite the trebulant episode, Johnny. Thanks. Catch ya for the next one.

3:31 The Trebuchet ain't the only thing carrying a load.

The story of Warwolf will always be my favorite story of the Trebuchet. Edward 1st: "I have this giant Trebuchet, and by God I'm gonna use it!"

I really gotta hand it to ya Johnny, a lot of channels wouldnt have been able to swing a video about such tense weapons

Love the chicken in CK: Deliverance, i don't remember that part from the game 😂 i do remember them just going "no we fucked up, let's not use that thing"

Thanks for rocking our world Johnny.

Always a great day when J.J. uploads!

Nothing quite matches the panic when playing Age of Empires 2 and fifteen trebs roll out from the darkness.