It was rammed through walls and big doors. They would first douse the doors with oil. Then they would set fire to them and let it burn to weakin the enourmous wooden doors.
For destroying castle doors.
No as the battering ram was a medieval siege machine
The attacking soldiers would use it to try and enter the city or castle
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the good pionts about Battering Ram was they always broke down castle and is a very strong wood
I used a battering ram to open the castle doors. I rammed the doors open.
Storming the gateway of a castle means to use a battering ram and essentially breaking in though the gateway ( main door of castle).
The battering ram was and is used to tear down the walls of an opposing force's fortress entrance (the gates to a fort or castle). Modern-day battering rams are used by swat teams to tear through doors.
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It's a siege tactic. Those laying siege would tunnel to the castle walls and destroy their foundations from under the ground. It was much safer than using a battering ram.
The core idea of battering rams was never to batter walls down, as even with wooden walls, this would be difficult. The principle behind the ram was to concentrate a lot of attacking force onto the weakest point of any castle, its gates.