Explanation: The trebuchet was a medieval siege weapon which, by a system of counterweights, could launch heavy stones several hundred meters away, primarily for the purpose of damaging buildings and fortifications.

when we finally get a metric meme but isn’t period correct

Upvoted for non-forced use of metric system

goddamn it it’s so dumb but I’m cackling

Love the story about a siege in England where they hauled the biggest ever trebuchet at that point to the castle, and the besieged just surrendered rather than be subjected to that bombardment. King was like “eh, it’s already here, so… fire away!” and they did.