Trebuchet - 100 Darts

It might do it

What if you didn't use a fuse, but instead used a quick release mechanism with a line tied to the trebuchet. it'd then always release at the same point.

Im looking at your treb and am wondering if our arm is too short. Whats your arm ratio and weight load?

Very cool! Great video Todd.

So how about a cluster dart for your catapulta?

cluster bombs of the roman empire

What on earth is the point of this ridiculous channel? Who cares what weapons medieval or Roman militaries might have created? They did what they did. This man is obsessed.

Imagine switching those bolts to plumbata

I wonder if instead of a fuse they would have attached it by some kind of drag sabot.

I loved the video. Thank you to you and the team, running around picking them all up repeatedly. It was worth it. It made me think: I am fascinated with all the applications that caltrops could be used. I believe they could be stacked and wrapped in such away that they could deploy to cover an area. If you made one point longer than the other three it might plant to create an extreme foot-hazard but impale those who are in the area in which the caltrops are deployed. Having a cord attached to the bucket to begin a spin and unravelling of the cord securing them they might scatter and threaten a large area. Hard to throw back too so kind of perfect in my mind.

Sort of foot-traffic-hazard that can be deployed and remain dangerous to the target even after it was fired. Like spiky grapeshot. Or like the spiked chains that were fired at rigging in naval battles, weighted on the ends. Destructive and threatening to ship and its crew. With a trebuchet you could throw an open barrel of caltrops, lawn-darts, lawn-darts with bladed metal fletching, etc. Fascinating.

This channel might just have my favorite approach to history, ever: "They had the technology and understood the physics/ballistics. Even though improbable, it's not unreasonable to guess that someone tried it, somewhere & some time."

Aw his wee face at the end.

Brilliant. Reckon your missus must have the patience of angels.xx

Best not throw ammunition at your enemy that they can throw back at you.

"If it was cool back then, it's still cool now." Truer words have never been spoken.

So the only difference I see is the relation between the fuse tied to the bundle of darts as opposed to loose rocks tied together what is the scattered rate on rock as opposed to the control dirt method?

Just cover your eyes and it's fine. Wouldn't penetrate clothes

Thank god for Eugene Stoner.

why would we not want to stand under those arrows? they have like zero energy

I could see this as the precursor to grapeshot in cannons, short range, anti-personnel payload for when troops are gaining ground on your artillery.

Weaponized lawn darts!

Kool. Now try that’s with,plumbatas! 🤘

Medival DPICM

If not darts,what about bundles of iron rods?Cheaper and a lot more devastating,I reckon.

What if you wrapped them around a weight or piece of timber, it might increase the range?

As a terror/fear tactic this would be extremely effective for a small group of attackers / defenders

Could you use a basket of round stones about 1kg each. ???? Trebuchet shotgun rather than crossbow.

So, this is the trebuchet version of MLRS/HIMARS

SICK PUPPY...😂

YE OLDE LAWN DARTS

If you used the weighted Roman darts , you are definately onto something .

Somewhat reminiscent of the airdropped flechettes of WW1 or the "Lazy Dog" munitions dropped by the USA in the Korean and Vietnamese Wars.

Bring out the lawn darts!

I like those colored bowling balls on the side

Poison the darts.

great for a serge round so to speak, lobes over outer defence and rains down on those behind the walls , modern day air burst

Another idea: Lead slingshot bullets. Quick to cast, very hurty, used for centuries by Balearic slingers

Would be interesting to what the force of impact was to one bolt ? Would need enough to penetrate armor helmet.
Or chain mail. Being almost a drop angle, almost of 90 degrees to the ground. But Great work !
No one else has ever tried this lately !!
I got to see the big darts !!
That’s going to work !! And do some damage.

Accuracy -350😂

You’re a great warlord, Sire! :)

Medieval cluster munitions. I think a drone shot would have helped to show the dispersal pattern.

Awesome video! I have wondered about this exact thing for such a long time. Well, my hypothetical was arrows and catapults, but anyway...

I've always wondered about bundles of something similar to caltrops like small spiked balls. Might not be exactly lethal but definitely could cause damage.

Who's next?

That's takin lawn darts to the next level

The problem with the hand dart is they could throw them right back.

Even if they were not that deadly, the psychological effect it would have had on the soldiers seeing these things raining down would have given them something to think about

3 words spiked flail balls