A Roman siege tower or breaching tower (or in the Middle Ages, a belfry [1]) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification.

This is a list of siege engines invented through history. A siege engine is a weapon used to circumvent or destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers and fortified gateways. Petrary is the generic term for medieval stone throwing siege engines.

The Siege Tower was a type of medieval siege engine constructed to protect assailants when approaching the walls of a fortification. Siege towers were usually rectangular and had four wheels. Their height was roughly equivalent to that of a wall, or even taller to allow for archers.

A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare. Some are immobile, constructed in place to attack enemy fortifications from a distance, while others have wheels to enable advancing up to the enemy fortification.

Siege towers were a special kind of medieval siege weapon whose main purpose was the transportation of attacking soldiers onto castle walls. For this purpose, the height of the siege tower was made roughly equal to the height of the castle wall.

A siege tower (also breaching tower; or in the Middle Ages a belfry) is a specialized siege engine, constructed to protect assailants and ladders while approaching the defensive walls of a fortification.

Roman siege tower (called turris outpatient in Latin) was moved on round logs with the use of levers. It was usually a structure in the shape of a truncated pyramid with a wooden, grate structure, built on a square plan.

The Siege Tower is a deployable siege-type weapon, primarily used as a towable raid structure with built-in ladders and doorways to allow for jumping over high external walls or up to open windows. It was added to RUST in the Primitive Update in February 2025 as an alternate mode of base infiltration since the Primitive Game Mode disables ...

2025年2月6日 · Siege Tower. Not all weapons are designed to do direct damage, chief amongst them being the Siege Tower. Those who have been playing RUST for years know that sometimes there is no replacement for a well-placed ladder. A Siege Tower is essentially a ladder on steroids. Like the Catapult, it must be pushed, pulled, or towed to whatever building ...

3 天之前 · Siege towers, towering wooden structures on wheels, played a crucial role in ancient warfare, particularly during the protracted conflicts of the Greek city-states. These impressive constructions allowed besieging armies to breach fortified walls, elevating soldiers above them for a direct assault. The significance of siege towers in warfare ...