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The castles themselves weren't really weapons but... anti-weapons. Their moats, battlements, and twelve foot thick walls could stop almost anything. Although they could have weapons in them. Cannons and archers can be placed in battlements. Moats can be filled with crocks. Hot oil can be dumped down the wall, preventing people from climbing. All in all, castles were the defense of the middle ages.
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∙ 6y agothey were attacked by large catapults,arrows,spears,manlets,scaling ladder,fire,battering arms,flaming torches and escalade.many things were used becoz the lords in the castles had many enemies so they had so many ways of being attacked.if the lord had a motte and bailey castle then it was easily flammable so it was in ruins in seconds.
One is a trebuchet, which is like a giant catapult.
Another is a Siege Tower, which was used to scale castle walls.
Also there is something called a battering ram, which was a shed with a thick tree trunk on chains hanging from a beam above, used to break down a gatehouse door or smash a castle wall.
Hope this helps because they are all from medieval times.
there were many weapons to attack castles siege towers,battering rams,archers,digging under the castle or firing rocks and other objects using a mangonel or a trebouchet
Under, over or through the wall at some point or points. Better still, just prevent food & water from the defenders: Siege. It might be possible to undermine the walls by tunnelling. It might be possible to scale the walls with a tower or ladders. Or batter a doorway or wall. Or any combination thereof. Ballistas, Mangonels & Trebuchets were means of throwing rocks & suchlike. But what saw the end for castles in the long term was gunpowder, although the storming of fortifications was still a costly enterprise. The castle still existed even into WW2, the example of the German attack on Eben Emael in Belgium is a classic of airborne warfare, the defenders didn't expect to be attacked by parachutists !
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∙ 11y agothe types of weapons in a medieval castles were swords, a mace, flail, bow,arrows, crossbow, spears,and halberd.
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∙ 11y agoCatapults
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∙ 11y agoSwords
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How do you attack a castles?
using weapons
How did invaders destroy castles?
weapons
What was in a castles?
night armor and weapons
What weapons were used on concentric castles?
catapaults
What weapons are used to ruin castles?
catapults and trebuchets
What is a castles armoury?
An armoury is a place where weapons are kept (stored).
What weapons were used to defend Mott and Bailey castles?
arrows and slingshots
What weapons were used to attack Square Keep Castles?
The same weapons that were used to attack any other castle!!
When and why the use of Norman castles change?
because weapons destroied them over time
Why was medieval castles hard to defend?
for the people who was their enemy had greater Armour and weapons
Why were siege weapons built?
To break down the defenses of walled cities or castles.
When did the castles outlive its usefulness?
the castle outlived it usefulness in the 1500's this happened because the weapons became more advance and the castles were easier to attack
