catapult

catapults are the most effective trowing weapon of the medieval times. Catapults were made from wood rope, and skin( animal). the most common and the best of designs (my opinion) is the trebuchet. It has a very long throwing arm with a long cord with animal skin shaped as a pouch, and a pivot point in the middle of it with a pivoting weight at the end. to use this you must put the object you are going to throw in the pouch then release the trip wire and done you have the object flying through the air at great speeds until it reaches your target. here is a video of a trebuchet made in England.



In my 2nd year of high school i had to build a model trebuchet in my construction class and we had a competition on who's can throw the hardest but after having started the build have way through the semester we did not have time to fire it but im sure my trebuchet would have won.