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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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