siege equipment
Walls come down
Siege equipment refers to the weapons and machinery used to attack fortified positions—battering rams, catapults, siege towers, trebuchets, and later, cannons.
The term appears most often in historical contexts and strategy games: The army brought up siege equipment to breach the castle walls.
Modern military equivalents might include artillery or demolition charges, though the phrase itself evokes medieval warfare.
- catapultSiege engine for launching
- mantletMobile defensive barrier
- fascineBound brushwood bundle
- trebuchetCounterweight-powered projectile launcher
- gabionWire cage filled with rocks
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Protective fortress walls
battlements · murder holes · portcullis · moat · arrow slits
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Structures that block threats
shield walls · palisades · earthworks · bunkers · trenches
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