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Herald of Steel

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery. A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him. He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself. But how can such things not attract jealous eyes? The naval superpower- Cantagena, The unstoppable army of- Exolas, The superpower of the east- Adhania, The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest, All want something from each other. In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all. The cover is not mine. If you are the owner of this cover, comment and I will remove it.

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Challenges of a Trebuchet

Like catapults, there existed basically two kinds of trebuchets.

There was the much simpler torsion trebuchet which was basically a larger hand drawn version of the simple catapult and the counterweight trebuchet.

In the case of the torsion trebuchet, historically that was not too effective as siege engines, rather, most accounts describe them as light artillery weapons, being used as efficient anti-personnel weapons in supportive positions alongside archers and slingers, while actual penetration of defenses was the result of mining or siege towers. 

For instance, at the Siege of Kamacha in 766, Byzantine defenders used wooden cover to protect themselves from the enemy artillery while inflicting casualties with their own stone throwers