Do they come with the required manpower though?
Crew of 4 for the tank. Crew of… thousands? To move and use 541 trebuchets?
M1 Abrams: Requires an advanced economy plus an army of General Dynamics contractors for maintenance
Trebuchet: Can be completely repaired by one hammer-wielding villager
Plus, I assume that tanks count as a cavalry archer unit, which means any old monk can start converting them. Meanwhile trebuchets can’t be converted until your enemy researches redemption at the monastery.
in AOEIII artillery are siege weapons so I think tanks would count as that, I remember getting my onagers converted in AOE but I don’t remember if that’s a thing in AOEII
That’s correct. Bombard cannons require the monk to straight up whisper in the crouching dude’s ear for conversion.
In my headcanon, it’s probably because bombard operators are deaf with all that blasting.
I do, yes.
Why is that? A tank doesn’t have enough ammunition to take out that many trebuchets, but a stone launched from one of those trebuchets could destroy or seriously damage a tank to the point it would be combat ineffective.
It doesn’t matter how thick the armor on any given tank is, you drop a 1000lbs rock on it and it’s toast. And that’s not even taking into account the fact that some trebuchets were big enough to launch 2000lbs rocks, according to the encyclopedia Britannica.
An abrams can travel at 25mph offroad. It’ll be impossible to aim to hit it. The only way is to launch all your trebuchets and hope one hits it. If you miss, you’re gonna have 60tons with multiple machine guns running you over in a few seconds.
I’ll accept your concept if you’ll sell me 200 gold for 11,457 dollars
Risky for you to not include any units of gold. I think I’ve got at least 200mg of gold around my finger I will gladly trade for $11,457 USD.
Yes, a meme about an M1 Abrams, denoted in USD, is going to use a fractional metric unit 🙄
What a moronic paintsniffer
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