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Medieval Weapons Research Paper

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Medieval warfare In medieval times the knights used many different weapons and they all had their own uses. The tactics they used also cleared what they would use in battle. Before they started a battle a lot of thought went into the battle before they began. For both sides it was a expensive thing to do what made it worth doing was the chance of winning and getting goods and land to make up for their expense. Depending on the role of attacker or defender the expense and tactics were very different. ("Siege Weapons."). In the time weapons where made for a specific use. With the improvements in armor the weapons they used to use started to lose their effect on the people wearing that armor. They had to make something that could damage people …show more content…

They came up with poles with hooks at the end that would hook on the rider's armor and pull them or make him fall off. They also made the halberg which was a axe, spear, and hook all in one. They would use the hook to pull riders off of there horse or stab them on the horse.("Medieval Weapons."). There was attacks that they would go for a castle. They would need special weapons, they were called siege weapons. They were the mongole, battering ram, siege tower, catapult, and trebuchet. The mongole was like the catapult in the sense it launched projectiles but they were different in their design. The mongole was a giant crossbow. The siege tower was used to cross walls of castles they would make it the same height or even taller than the wall they had to go over and it would protect anybody inside with ladders for the attack. The battering ram is simply a tree truck held up by rope or chain to a frame covered in wooden or sometimes steel in spots. It was used to protect the multiple soldiers inside that would work the trunk back and forth to hit doors or castle gates down so they could get in. The trunk would have a spike

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