"Let me show you its features".

I hate this meme. Someone says "think about what you are doing prideful fool". And the other person still decides to use lethal force. That is diabolical, not funny.

I hate to contradict you, but it seems like a tautology.

https://old.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/dncow5/fully_function...

Indeed, I am sure there are other mechanisms that could cause similar trauma.

> We can rule out Warwolf

Can we? That Wikipedia page is inconclusive, and thus article says:

During Edward I’s 1304 siege of the castle, English forces deployed the recently invented trebuchet, a weapon first documented in the 12th century. A cousin to the catapult, trebuchets were capable of hurling boulders weighing more than 100 kilograms hundreds of meters. One at Stirling, dubbed “War Wolf,” “was the biggest trebuchet ever built at that point,” Buckberry says. Eyewitness accounts confirm the giant siege engine was used during the 1304 battle, tearing through two stone walls “as an arrow would fly through a piece of cloth.”

Accounts of the battle don’t mention any trebuchet casualties. But Buckberry says Skeleton 150’s injuries strongly suggest at least one defender was hit from behind by a flying boulder, launched by War Wolf or one of the other siege engines arrayed outside Stirling Castle’s walls. “It’s a huge amount of energy delivered in milliseconds,” Waltenberger says. “In skeletons from past times you rarely see this.”

> Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing

from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”

Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice

Instant unconsciousness. Hopefully he didn't wake up.

War… war never changes.

Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

From 1935. And he was not the first one to point that out either.

I actually think that thanks to the internet, we expose many more criminal build ups towards warfare nowadays than before.

Catapults store energy using elastic deformation, like a bow; counterweight trebuchets store energy using gravity.

Didn't the Romans have something similar?

What do you expect - it came in like a wrecking ball

Didn’t feel it though, cuz he was stoned.