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Bertha: Trebuchet MK 17

Revisting an old idea/design I had I decided to go bigger than I had done, bigger than the largest besiege trebuchet up to that point. When I say trebuchet i mean a trrue gravity powered trebuchet. As usual this is totally vanilla besiege.

Naturally making a tebuchet this large comes with a few issues which i encountered with my first versions. Including the last stationary version I posted on here (the MK 8). However, I'm pleased to say I solved a few of these issues. The main one being the inability to run it without invinvibility. The MK 17 will work without invincibility on.

It doesn't fit in the little box they provide you with, nor can it be reloaded. It's a one shot system. However, to compare with the MK 8, it uses less than half the amount of blocks of the MK 8, but is about twice it's size. It's counterweight is 7x as heavy (aprox beseige weight of MK 8's was 100, the MK 17 comes in at 700).

Desipite the fewer number of blocks, it still causes significant lag when firing, mostly due to the speed and scale of the mechanism. I advise running the machine at 10% - 50% depending on your system. I ran it at 30% during testing.

When firing, to gain maximum distance it's advisable to release the projectile just before the peak of the arc, don't worry about the small-ish runup of about 85° as this is still plenty of time to work up the speed.

Unfortunately due to the besiege engine limitation with gravity powered mechanism of this scale it doesn't shoot as far as I'd like, although it's still significantly further than the previous version.

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TL;DR

- Will work without invincibility
- One shot
- Run at 10-50%
- 100% Vanilla

I hope you have fun and enjoy the beast that is affectionately known as Bertha.

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Controls:

P = unpin and begin firing
F = Release the projectile

Note: There is a wheel in the mechanism and other grabbers but these are not there to power anything and only serve as a pivot for the main arm, while the other grabbers stabalise the machine. I do not know what happens if you use the assigned controls related to either of these. Probably instant destruction.