Not as much as bacon or boobs, but I love trebuchets. Not sure why. Maybe because it’s feat of engineering as a large-scale application of mechanical advantage. Maybe it’s because it’ll fuck you up from afar. It was always the first thing made whenever I got a new building toy set whether it was Legos, Erector, whatever. Many Weebles were lost to an overly-powerful Tinker-Toy siege engine.

Getting on with it…
Here’s a Flash game that lets you tweak a bunch of variables on your trebuchet as you’re tested for distance, accuracy, and power.