
ALRIGHT, IM GONNA TALK MY SHIT ON SOME OF THIS SIEGE ENGINEER STUFF, MOSTLY BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT, MORE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT HOW STUPID IT IS TO TRY AND BUILD A COMICALLY LARGE TREBUCHET. SEE, I'VE RECENTLY HEARD WORD THAT ON THE PLANET WITH THE HUMANS, A LOOOONG TIME AGO, SOME ASSHAT NAMED EDWARD TRIED TO BUILD A REALLY REALLY BIG TREBUCHET, AND WHILST I CERTAINLY DO ENJOY THE IDEA OF A REALLY BIG TREBUCHET DESTROYING CASTLES. NOT ONLY WOULD IT BE REALLY DIFFICULT TO MAINTAIN, BUT ALSO JUST MOVING IT AROUND. LETS BREAK THIS DOWN. 1. THE LOGISTICAL COST: THE FUCKING THING HAD TO BE DISSASSEMBLED AND REASSEMBLED CONSTANTLY TO MOVE IT, CAN YOU IMAGINE JUST HOW MUCH IT TAKES TO HAVE TO DO THAT OVER AND OVER WHENEVER YOU WANT TO USE IT? 2: ITS SLOW AS FUCK. THE GIANT COUNTERWEIGHTS OF THE DAMN THING MEANS IT WOULD TAKE FOREVER TO PRIME THE DAMN THING TO LAUNCH YOUR DESIRED PROJECTILE. 3: ITS INTEGRITY IS CRUMBLING: THE WOOD FRAMING USED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD STRUGGLE TO DISTRIBUTE THE WEIGHT PUT INTO EACH LAUNCH, CAUSING THE THING TO DAMAGE ITSELF THROUGH WARPING, PARTS OF IT BREAKING, OR STRESSING THE WOOD OUT TOO MUCH. AS IF ITS BEGGING TO COLLAPSE IN ON ITSELF. 4: THERES NO FUCKING MOBILITY AT ALL AND ITS VULNERABLE AS SHIT: ONCE THE DAMN THING WAS MADE, IT'D PRACTICALY JUST SIT THERE DURING THE ENTIRE SEIGE ASKING TO CRUMBLE BY THE ENEMY CASTLES OWN SEIGE ARMAMENTS. LIKE, WHAT DOES IT EVEN DO? 5: THIS FUCKING THING IS BEGGING TO DESTROY ITSELF: THE PHYSICS BEHIND THE DAMN THING SWINGING ITS PROJECTILE ARM CAUSED THE GOD DAMN BOULDER THEY WERE HURLING TO HIT ITSELF CAUSING THE THING TO CRUMBLE. ALL IN ALL, 0/10 TREBUCHET, THIS THING SUCKS. ...WHY DO YOU THINK IM BUILDING IT?

