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Siege Artillery and Medieval Warcraft
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Elevated siege platform for archers or troops advancing siege
  • 2. Protective shelter for sappers advancing on fortifications
  • 3. Defensive encirclement tactic integral to siege engine deployment
  • 5. Mobile fortress structure used to overtop enemy battlements
  • 8. Person operating stone-launching engines or the projectile itself
  • 11. Heavy frame bearing battering ram for breaching fortress gates
  • 12. Ancient siege beam weighted for mechanical projectile propulsion
  • 16. Stone-throwing artillery adapted for medieval siege warfare
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  • 4. Essential apparatus for foot soldiers to surmount parapets
  • 6. Torsion-powered siege engine flinging stones in uneven trajectories
  • 7. Counterweight catapult hurling projectiles with arc precision
  • 9. Fortified movable construct constructed to scale high walls
  • 10. Ancient siege crossbow launching massive bolts under tension
  • 13. Component of siege mechanisms enabling rotational energy transfer
  • 14. Defensive wooden stakes forming protective perimeter barriers
  • 15. Early firearm used alongside mechanical siege contraptions
  • 17. Punishing timber beam swung with violent force on gates
  • 18. Sloped earthen mound used to wheel siege engines near walls
  • 19. Roman-derived torsion artillery executing destructive earth-shaking throws

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