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What is a scaling tower?

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Quite simply, the tower is rolled up to the enemy wall, whereupon attacking soldiers climb it from the inside and pour over the wall. It was a much safer way of breaching a wall than with scaling ladders, as the scaling tower was heavily protected from arrows, javelins, and other missiles hurled at them by the defenders, and soldiers on top of the tower provided covering fire for those climbing onto the enemy wall. Yet, it took time to get the tower into position, which made no secret to the defenders of where the breach was intended. For this reason, several towers were used at the same time whenever possible, and they were very effective.

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A scaling tower was used back in the medival times. The scaling tower was the best way to destroy a castle in Europe. It also should be used at night so no one can see you and everyone would be sleeping.

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a scaling tower was a tower used in medieval time wars to help destroy castles. It is known as one of the most affictive way to destroy and attack castles

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You would have used a scaling tower to attack a medieval castle, by pushing it up against the wall and climbing up it over the walls.

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