What show are you watching right now?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Moving Art on Netflix when I’m putting the kids to bed. All the best parts of nature shows without any talking. Extremely relaxing.

[Montegriffo]

Just binge watched the first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle.

Weak scriptwriting, poor dialogue, terrible acting and worst of all...not a single castle.

[Hastur]

Finished the first season of Succession. It was good. Some really great performances. Especially Matthew Macfadyen as Tom.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Just binge watched the first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle.

Weak scriptwriting, poor dialogue, terrible acting and worst of all...not a single castle.

GoT had some excellent trebuchet firings tho.

[Montegriffo]

Just binge watched the first two seasons of The Man in the High Castle.

Weak scriptwriting, poor dialogue, terrible acting and worst of all...not a single castle.

GoT had some excellent trebuchet firings tho.

They always get that wrong though. Trebuchets are always portrayed as an attack weapon firing rapidly only during the assault and the long process of cocking them is never shown.
In reality a trebuchet was used like a WWI artillery barrage, firing constantly over several days or even weeks to weaken the defences before an assault.

[DrYouth]

They always get that wrong though. Trebuchets are always portrayed as an attack weapon firing rapidly only during the assault and the long process of cocking them is never shown.
In reality a trebuchet was used like a WWI artillery barrage, firing constantly over several days or even weeks to weaken the defences before an assault.

When defending a castle...
Would they even assemble a trebuchet?
In episode 3 they have them outside the castle walls...

Would this ever happen in a defence scenario?

Not that it probably matters when battling the undead... they don't seem inclined to seize them and turn them against the castle...
Swarm mode seems their only setting.

[Montegriffo]

They always get that wrong though. Trebuchets are always portrayed as an attack weapon firing rapidly only during the assault and the long process of cocking them is never shown.
In reality a trebuchet was used like a WWI artillery barrage, firing constantly over several days or even weeks to weaken the defences before an assault.

When defending a castle...
Would they even assemble a trebuchet?
In episode 3 they have them outside the castle walls...

Would this ever happen in a defence scenario?

Not that it probably matters when battling the undead... they don't seem inclined to seize them and turn them against the castle...
Swarm mode seems their only setting.

Castles certainly did use trebuchets as part of their defences. Beaumaris on Anglesey has a large platform on the end of a long wall (now known as gunners walk) which would have had a trebuchet on it.
The attacker's siege towers and their own trebuchets would have been targets when they came into range.
You wouldn't build one outside the walls though, as you say, they could be turned against you. Although, you would probably have to dismantle it and move it further away from the walls or it would just fire straight over the castle.
The attackers would have to build a larger trebuchet than the castle's to stay out of range.
In a long siege I would imagine that the defenders would run out of projectiles first and end up dismantling buildings inside the walls to use as ammo.

[Hastur]

Let's try to look for some logic in the defense of Winterfell.

First of all the attackers weren't the usual sort. The Undead were always expected to assault the castle as soon as they arrived and to do so in a mindless way.

The defenders were too many for the castle and they were short on supplies. They needed to get fighting as soon as possible.

They brought everything to Winterfell so they just had to use what they had in any way conceivable.

The Dothraki horsemen were the typical impetuous cavalry types. The kind that always charges, often too soon. Many wargames have special rules forcing you to roll for morale if you try to hold them back. That didn't bother me. We have no idea how many they managed to kill.

The siege engines were probably brought in with all the other stuff the allies tried to save. They just used them in the only way they could think of.

I don't understand why they were so slow at manning the walls, almost panicking when the wights charged over the trench. They had lots of time before that.

The wights in the library reminded me of units in a computer game, on the edge of battle, that you are to busy to issue an order to and are just a bit too far from the enemy to act automatically.

[StCapps]

I just choose to assume that they shot at them when they were just standing on the other side of the trench, and after they started coming across using corpse bridges, they just didn't show it. Not every single tactic used in the battle needs to be shown on screen, yeah, I'm going to go with that, as a generous interpretation of what happened.

[Kath]

Star Trek nerds - need some help with the Babelfish device.

How is it that it can translate so many foreign languages, easy-peasy, but once in a while, it just screws up, bigly.

Watching Voyager: Nemesis

The words are:

footfalls, glimpse, nullified, fathom, tells, new light, tend me, trunks ..... see, kill/dead, understand, says, morning, take care of me, trees.. there's more.

What's up with that? Why use the same words for hundreds of languages, but change it up once in a while? Is there a point or message in there?