siege tower
Mobile wall-climber
A siege tower is a tall wooden structure on wheels, used in ancient and medieval warfare to deliver attackers over defensive walls.
Soldiers would climb inside, protected from arrows and projectiles, then emerge at the top to fight defenders directly: The siege towers rolled toward the castle gates.
Heavy beam for breaching
- catapultSiege engine for launching
- trebuchetCounterweight-powered projectile launcher
- ballistaAncient projectile siege engine
- mantletMobile defensive barrier
testudo · sapper · mining · ladders · belfry · blockade · encirclement · bombardment
Climbing or resizing
- stormingAttacking with force
- breachBreaking of agreement
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- rampartsProtective fortress walls
battlements · parapet · defenders · attackers · escalade · boarding · overtopping · melee
Made from timber
- wheelsCircular rotation devices
- platformRaised flat structure
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- drawbridgeHinged castle entrance span
gangplank · hides · iron plating · framework · stories · levels · prefabricated · assembled
Of the Middle Ages
- ancientVery old indeed
- RomanOf ancient Italy's capital
- AssyrianAncient Mesopotamian people
- MacedonianOf a Balkan nation
crusades · Constantinople · Masada · Tyre · Alexander · warfare · campaign · fortresses
battering ram
Heavy beam for breaching
- catapultSiege engine for launching
- trebuchetCounterweight-powered projectile launcher
- ballistaAncient projectile siege engine
mantlet · testudo · sapper · mining · ladders · belfry · blockade · encirclement · bombardment · attrition
scaling
Climbing or resizing
ramparts · battlements · parapet · defenders · attackers · escalade · boarding · overtopping · melee · hand-to-hand
wooden
Made from timber
- wheelsCircular rotation devices
- platformRaised flat structure
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
drawbridge · gangplank · hides · iron plating · framework · stories · levels · prefabricated · assembled · mobile
medieval
Of the Middle Ages
Macedonian · crusades · Constantinople · Masada · Tyre · Alexander · warfare · campaign · fortresses · chronicles
- ancient weaponssword, swords, shield, shields, bow
- Ottoman militaryjanissaries, pasha, aga, agha, bey
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- medieval warfareknights, castle, castle defense, army, castles
- historical weaponsmusket, muskets, flintlock, flintlocks, pistols
- medieval itemssword, mace, flail, dagger, crossbow
siege towercastle wall
fortification · rampart · battlement · curtain wall · moat
tower, siege, besiege, besieged, besieging, besieger, besiegers, siege engine