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	Siege Warfare
		Siege weapons were varied and ingenious inventions, their main object being to effect an entrance through the gates or walls.
		At the siege of Marseille the defenders countered attempts to tunnel under their walls by digging a large basin inside the walls which they filled with water.
		Onagri were used in sieges to batter down walls, as well as by defenders to smash siege towers and siege works.
	www.roman-empire.net /army/leg-siege.html (0 words)

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		Some towers were almost 100 feet high, and in the siege of Kenilworth Castle, fully 200 archers and 11 catapults were crowded into a single tower.
		Siege towers were difficult and time-consuming to build, however, and castle defenders could burn them down with fire arrows or firepots (launched pots filled with flaming liquids such as tar).
		Sometimes castle knights launched surprise raids on a tower to destroy it during construction.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/tower.html (125 words)

	Siege Tower
		A siege tower was a more efficient means of attacking a castle than a direct attack utilizing ladders.
		Siege towers allowed a larger force to gain the battlements in a shorter time compared to an escalade.
		The typical tower was built to the height of the castle wall, then a draw bridge was lowered so that fighters could rush the defenders, while reinforcements bolstered the initial onslaught.
	itrs.scu.edu /students/Winter02/bresz/siege_tower.htm (137 words)

	Siege at AllExperts
		A siege is a prolonged military blockade and assault of a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition.
		A siege tower could also be used: a substantial structure built as high, or higher than the walls, it allowed the attackers to fire down upon the defenders and also advance troops to the wall with less danger than using ladders.
		Although siege warfare had moved out from an urban setting because city walls had become ineffective against modern weapons, trench warfare was nonetheless able to utilize many of the techniques of siege warfare in its prosecution (sapping, mining, barrage and, of course, attrition) but on a much larger scale and on a greatly extended front.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/si/siege.htm (5582 words)

	THE MIDDLE AGES: A CASTLE SIEGE!!
		Thus, the goal of a siege army was not to destroy a castle, but to penetrate it.
		The front and top of the siege tower was covered with leather hides to prevent defenders from catching it on fire.
		Siege engines were machines, and as machines, they could be powered in many different ways.
	library.thinkquest.org /10949/fief/hisiege.html (1588 words)

	Siege Tower
		The siege tower was usually a tall, rectangular construction with four wheels and a height roughly equal to that of the wall or sometimes higher.
		Siege Towers were large and expensive to construct - they were therefore the last type of siege weapon to be constructed at a prolonged siege when the fortification could not be penetrated by ladder assault, sapping or by pounding walls.
		A siege tower was used at the siege of Kenilworth Castle in 1266.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /siege-tower.htm (812 words)

	TimeRef - Medieval History Timelines
		The siege tower or belfry was a wooden tower used during a siege by the attackers to get men over the walls of the castle.
		Siege towers were built on site using local materials and would have only been constructed if the siege was a lengthy one or the castle was important and the atatckers wanted to take the castle undamaged.
		The tower had wheels so that it could be pushed up to the castle walls and a drawbridge at the top would be lowered when the tower was in place.
	www.btinternet.com /~timeref/siege1.htm (226 words)

	Renaissance and Medieval Siege Warfare Tactics
		A siege usually meant the attackers would surround the target, either the city or a fortress with the intent of blocking the entry of supplies and provisions to the inhabitants.
		Siege Tower: This is a specialized siege engine used to protect the attackers as they approached the walls of the fortress or castle.
		If the siege tower was successful, the last thing to do was to drop planks between the tower and the wall to allow the attackers to enter the fortress or castle.
	www.all-about-renaissance-faires.com /warfare/siege_tactics.htm (1962 words)

	Siege Warfare in Ancient Egypt
		Yet some recorded sieges were prolonged affairs going on for months and even years, and a few of them are important markers in Egyptian history: For example, the successful siege of Hatwaret (Avaris) by Ahmose I signalled the end of the Hyksos presence in Egypt.
		When sieges were called for, depictions of such campaigns, such as those in Merenptah's campaign in Palestine recorded in the annals, display soldiers assaulting the fortifications by scaling ladders, sometimes on wheels and by infantry using axes to break into the wooden gates, all backed up by a hail of arrows from Egyptian archers.
		The building of a causeway was proposed, as was the erection of siege towers, but Piye took advantage of the fact that the harbor was not as well defended nor the river wall as well manned as the huge ramparts facing north.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/siegewarfare.htm (0 words)

	Castellan: Siege Warfare (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Siege warfare is the third member of the strategies of medieval warfare, the other two being the raid and the pitched battle.
		A belfrey, also known as a siege tower, is a much more effective way of attacking the top of a defensive wall, enabling a fighting force to gain the top of the wall in comparative security compared to having to scale the wall using ordinary ladders.
		Sometimes a penthouse was attached to the rear of siege towers allowing assault troops and those moving the tower a protective shelter when approaching a wall.
	home.comcast.net /~harnmil1/castellan/castellan_siege_warfare.htm (8207 words)

	Victori - The Roman Military \| Tools of War \| Tools of the Siege (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the Romans sieged an enemy, they didn’t just wait around for the enemy to starve to death, as the enemy could have a large supply of food and water.
		This was a large, mobile tower that could be rolled up to the enemy’s walls, and a drawbridge lowered from the top to allow soldiers access to the besieged fortress.
		These towers were covered in hide or armor, and had a full complement of archers to pick defenders off the ramparts.
	www.numbera.com /rome/tools/siegetool.aspx (385 words)

	Medieval Castle Siege
		The defenders were forced to abandon the tower and began preparing for a battle behind the breached wall.
		Once the bridge of the siege tower has been lowered three figures may cross onto the walls each turn if there are defenders in the way (they will fight a melee).
		If the siege tower has a protected top then any figures on top get the same protection as if they were behind a mantlet.
	www.juniorgeneral.org /siege/siege2.html (2487 words)

	Siege Warfare
		Portable siege weapons are a little different in that you actually have to make them, to what degree depends, but generally speaking the more effort you put into the creation, the cheaper and easier to carry they will be.
		Towers 1 and 2 of a keep are a good guide line to judge range by, a portable Trebuchet will usually reach from just behind a tower to the keep wall, or from the front of a tower to the inner Keep.
		Towers are bad, they serve very little purpose and in most cases are more of a threat to the realm then a bonus, if I had a button that could flatten every tower in the realm, i'd press it.
	www.knightsofpendragon.co.uk /guides/Siege_Guide.html (7068 words)

	Medieval Siege Warfare
		After the constuction of a wooden tower and a wall, was the addition of a giant stone tower, called keep.
		The easiest way to do this was to build a tower on the left side of the door, from the inside of the castle, to leave the unprotected side of the soldiers.
		To place the tower adjacent to the outer skirt, the moat had to be filled with dirt or wood.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/7967/web2.htm (1511 words)

	+Lord of the rings! ++Models from games workshop
		Siege is all about attacking a castle or a fortress of some kind.
		The siege tower carries troops to board the walls, they count as a siege target and are quite hard to destroy, exept by a trebuchet.
		To move a siege tower trolls or orcs must push it.
	www.freewebs.com /lotrmodelmania/siege.htm (174 words)

	Siege Engines for 10mm and 15mm troops
		Siege Towers, Battering Rams, and Catapults were use in the days of old, to assault a fortified enemy.
		The completed Siege Tower was pushed up to the walls of a castle, where the troops that pushed the Tower would climb ladders to the top and either shoot over the wall into the compound, or drop a ramp and storm the wall its self!
		While the Siege Tower was occupying the enemy, a Battering Ram would be pushed up to either the door of the castle or one of the walls.
	www.dldproductions.com /siegeengcatpg1.html (0 words)

	Medieval Siege Weapons
		Siege warfare tactics and weapons varied according to the role of Castle Defender or Castle Attacker.
		Siege Tower - A siege weapon designed to protect attackers and their ladders whilst storming a weak area of the castle wall.
		The tower was usually rectangular with four wheels and a height equal to that of the wall, or sometimes higher, to allow archers to stand on top of the tower and fire into the castle.
	www.castles.me.uk /medieval-siege-weapons.htm (613 words)

	Armies of Arcana: Siege rules (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Towers are treated like walls, except they cover a 4" x 4" area, and have more wounds than walls made of equivalent materials.
		Siege towers are large structures which carry many troops up to a wall.
		On the turn a tower is pushed to within 1" of a wall, the troops inside may lower the front gate.
	www.thanesgames.com /aoasupport/seige/Siege_0_1.htm (5041 words)

	Archive Skaven
		The ground 2-3" from a wall or tower consist of collapsed pieces of the wall or tower and a multitude of scrap and debris.
		EG a Siege tower may not be able to move close enough to the wall to lower the ramp.
		Connecting the walls and towers of the Skaven castle are ladders, poles, ratwalks, tunnels, and pipes for the Skaven to move around with.
	hem.passagen.se /angel8/siege/rules.htm (1601 words)

	Fortifications
		For example, an army attacking a castle with 10 siege towers would reduce the defensive bonus of the castle from +25 to +15.
		Although siege towers have no attack capability, they can still be chosen in the combat algorithm as an attack; in which case the attack fails.
		Siege engines are not used in combat at sea.
	www.pbm.com /oly/tag/Manual/Fortifications.html (331 words)

	The Medieval Paige-Siege Weapons
		When the siege became too long, or the besiegers became too restless, the weapons of siege warfare were used.
		The siege tower was used to take the besiegers over the castle walls.
		The tower was often covered with fresh, water soaked cowhides, just like the battering ram, to protect those inside from missiles and fire.
	members.tripod.com /medievalpaige/siege.html (519 words)

	Siege Weapons
		Siege warfare tactics and weapons varied according to the role of Defender or Attacker.
		All sieges had to be carefully planned and the exact type and number of siege weapons had to be established.
		Medieval Lords, knights and their Siege Engineers identified the weakest parts of the Castle or town that they needed to attack and planned the design of the siege engines accordingly.
	www.middle-ages.org.uk /siege-weapons.htm (499 words)

	Siege Tower, medieval, 3d model, extudeZ
		Scaling the walls of the dark castle couldn't be easier than with the Siege Tower (aka, Siege Train).
		Roll it up and throw the planks across the walls and you're in!
		Copyright © 2001, 2002 extrudeZ and ABACUS Digital Design
	www.extrudez.com /models/siege-tower/index.htm (0 words)

	GW Online : The Lord of The Rings : Mordor : Modelling a Siege Tower
		We were particularly impressed with the siege towers that Matt had constructed and asked him to show us how he made them.
		The designs of the walls, interiors, and siege towers all derived from whatever sketchy stills we could scrape together from the previews.
		The towers are made mostly of wood and cardboard and have been scaled to fit the Games Workshop Minas Tirith set.
	uk.games-workshop.com /mordor/siege-tower/1 (549 words)

	Siege Warfare in Greece
		Catapults, crossbows, battering rams, and siege towers were developed to break opposing defenses.
		Siege towers were large square towers on wheels from which men could get to the top of a wall.
		A siege tower was rolled up to a wall, and soldiers came out of the tower to take that area of the wall around the city.
	www.historylink102.com /greece3/siege-warefare.htm (285 words)

	Miniatures for siege warfare
		Siege warfare was predominant in the middle ages.
		Miniatures are tailored to the end of the Roman Empire with different forms of catapult, or to the latter part of the medieval era when gunpowder first appeared (Edward I used gunpowder at Stirling in 1304, and guns were later used against the Scots by the English in1327).
		The siege engines on offer include the usual penthouse and ram as well as a general purpose penthouse, scaling ladders, a wheeled siege tower (this one is 6" high), a stone thrower, a large counter-weighted trebuchet, organ gun, and a bombard.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wargaming/72105/1 (377 words)

	Siege Towers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A siege tower is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders whilst approaching the defensive walls of a fortification.
		The tower was often rectangular with four wheels and a height roughly equal to that of the wall or sometimes higher to allow archers to stand on top of the tower and fire into the fortification.
		Taking a lot of time to construct, siege towers were mainly constructed if the defense of the opposing fortification could not be overcome by ladder assault, by sapping or by breaking walls or gates.
	home.comcast.net /~sylvanarrow/siege_tower.htm (130 words)

	Fields of Honor 2002
		In addition, a siege tower has been built which virtually guarantees that the castle walls will be breached.
		The siege tower lumbers close enough to the wall to drop its bridge
		The defenders were bold enough to come out of the towers and fight in melee combat on the walkway.
	ryan.skow.org /siege/Fields2002/SaturdayBattleReport.html (629 words)

	About Facts Net
		If the siege tower did get to the walls, there was a good chance that the castle would be overrun.
		Sometimes a siege would take years because the castle would have a stockpile of food and you would have to wait for that to be used up.
		The stair case going up to the towers favored a right hand person on the descending side because knights used their right hand to swing their swords and their left to hold their shields and the space on the right side going up the staircase was limited preventing a full sword swing.
	aboutfacts.net /Ancient37.htm (1106 words)

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