siege towers
Wall-scaling war machines
Siege towers are tall wooden structures on wheels, used in ancient and medieval warfare to approach fortified walls while protecting soldiers inside.
Attackers pushed them against walls, allowing troops to cross from the tower's top directly onto the battlements: The siege towers rolled toward the castle as archers provided cover.
- catapultSiege engine for launching
- laddersStructures for ascending
- ballistaAncient projectile siege engine
- breachingBreaking through something
- scalingClimbing or resizing
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- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
siege towerscastle walls
defensive walls · ramparts · fortifications · battlements · citadels
siege towersmining tunnels
Underground passages for extraction
sapping · battering rams · undermining · tunneling · mining operations
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