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[sculleywr]

I don't have time for science, so I am fielding this to the DF community. How well would building a bridge and designating a stone stockpile on it work for using it as a (highly inaccurate) catapult? Has anyone tried this?

[Loud Whispers]

You can't make a stone stockpile on a bridge. Or any stockpile for that matter. You can however, mark a section of bridge as a dumping zone, and mark boulders for dumping.
First, land. Then, space.

[MattStriker]

It really is extremely inaccurate. The only way I could reliably generate hits with drawbridge launchers was by seriously limiting the available space.

I built a set of drawbridges to lock an attacking force into a hallway lined with sniper positions. This ended up launching a goblin who'd almost made it to the next section of trap corridor into his fellows for some impressive results, which made me consider stocking the bridges with assorted junk for added fun.

My experience was that the only thing you can rely on with a bridge-a-pult is that whatever you launch is eventually going to land somewhere.

[Aquathug]

You can always set burrows on top of bridges to make a dwarfapult. Hilarity always ensues.

[Button]

If the bridges are inaccessible to your dwarves, or if you're willing to forbid the ammunition manually once it's in place, you could put a hole in the ceiling and use a minecart quantum stockpile as a loading mechanism.

Thought: What happens if you surround a bridgeapult with a one-tile-high wall, no ceiling, and then fill that room with magma?

[sculleywr]

If the bridges are inaccessible to your dwarves, or if you're willing to forbid the ammunition manually once it's in place, you could put a hole in the ceiling and use a minecart quantum stockpile as a loading mechanism.

Thought: What happens if you surround a bridgeapult with a one-tile-high wall, no ceiling, and then fill that room with magma?

I need to find a volcano, embark there, make magma-safe setup, and test! SCIENCE MUST BE DONE!

[Oaktree]

If the bridges are inaccessible to your dwarves, or if you're willing to forbid the ammunition manually once it's in place, you could put a hole in the ceiling and use a minecart quantum stockpile as a loading mechanism.

Thought: What happens if you surround a bridgeapult with a one-tile-high wall, no ceiling, and then fill that room with magma?

I had an operational trap corridor that was nothing but a long row of retracting bridges on a repeater.  Dumped some boulders on it and just left it running - and took pains to keep dwarves, pets, children, migrants, and diplomats out of it.  (Which takes work since it also has to be the shortest route into the fortress.)

As the boulders thumped goblin snatchers, kobolds, and wildlife to bits their clothing and corpses added to the pieces being tossed around to hit the next set of intruders.  Had quite an accumulation built up after a few years.  And it could be stopped to pick up useful items to melt down.  (And you also want default orders to forbid all death items -- or else there will be a quest for socks!)