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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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So....
Anyone have stocked up on siege weapons?
Forget siege weapons, just a shovel and jackhammer.
I think drones are the new siege weapons.
Nothing will replace a good mortar or howitzer. I'm not even joking, you can disrupt a drone but the 20mm HE mortar shell? No so much.
Billionaires: *build moats and walls around their homes*
The eventual uprising:
I saw some really neat YouTube videos about trebuchet. They don't seem that complex.
Local High school kids build them for a graded project around where i live, so not very difficult for an adult to handle.
Been meaning to find an excuse to engineer a trebuchet.