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Examples of offensive tactics would be using a giant catapult to hurl large stones at the beseiged walls or using a battering ram to force entry to entrance doors or walls.
Examples of defensive tactics would be pouring boiling oil or other burning liquid from the walls of the beseiged structure onto the attackers - or even throwing bodily waste or corpses.
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