[Oblivion437]

I suppose you're right Memnoch, but that's only if you can get a mangonel or Trebuchet close enough.

Trebuchets are only effective to some, what is it, yards or feet? I forget, well I believe it's 900 yards...That's not much...Before the cannon that was the longest ranged (the windlass version, at least) and most accurate artillery piece of its day.

A cannon, on the other hand, can work at twice that distance. A few well-placed shots with weight and velocity that was worlds apart from previous weapons allowed it to be used to directly bring down the toughest turrets with ease.

Not to mention, a cannon, even the horridly primiitive fall-apart-with-each-shot kinds, could be reloaded and fired again much faster than any previous artillery piece.

Unless it was that Turkish Super Gun, but that's another story.