What were some strategies during the middle ages?
i have a social studies project for which i have to make a castle display and for it my topic is battles during the middle ages. well what my question is what were some strategies at the time? like the battering ram to break down gates, and fiery arrows to burn the catsle down and also the ladder to clim up and raid from the top. what were some other ones?
They would also pour boiling liquid, most often oil, down on the attackers from the castle ramparts. This would burn them but also seem to cling to their skin, increasing the agony and making the attackers more terrified to attack. The attackers of a castle or fort also used towers to mount the walls. Many soldiers could be crammed inside and it had wheels on the bottom to push it to the castle walls. Once against the walls a gate at the top of the tower was released and the soldiers could all pour out onto the top of the walls.
A siege technique attackers of a castle or fort would sometimes use was, although gruesome, very effective. They would set up a catapult, and load it with dead horses that had been killed in battle. They would then fire the bodies over the walls and within a few hours or days the bodies began to rot, causing disease within the walls and obviously an awful smell. For an extra terror effect sometimes bodies or often heads of the defenders’ soldiers were fired back over the walls to strike fear into them. Trebuchets were huge catapults used usually to fire huge boulders at walls although were occasionally used against large armies and they could fire a long distance.
On the battlefield there were often not very much strategies but infact a bloodbath of both armies meeting and fighting in close quarters. Archers were often used tactically to demoralise the enemy, as well as terror units such as axeman who could cleave a man and horse in two with one blow.
Cavalry were used to break enemy ranks and also to confuse and frighten the enemy soldiers.
I hope I was of help 
trebuchet
go to this exact website and scroll down:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medieval_weapons
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search it up on google, holds all my answers rite there!!!! lolz srry but im prob. WAAAAAY stupider than u… i suggest wikipedia, but b careful i no some ppl who mess wikipedia up just 4 fun dont no y they just do (not me just othr pplz out there) so yeah good luck on ur project tho!!!! darn lolz i hav 2 go finish thiz science essay BYEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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They would also pour boiling liquid, most often oil, down on the attackers from the castle ramparts. This would burn them but also seem to cling to their skin, increasing the agony and making the attackers more terrified to attack. The attackers of a castle or fort also used towers to mount the walls. Many soldiers could be crammed inside and it had wheels on the bottom to push it to the castle walls. Once against the walls a gate at the top of the tower was released and the soldiers could all pour out onto the top of the walls.
A siege technique attackers of a castle or fort would sometimes use was, although gruesome, very effective. They would set up a catapult, and load it with dead horses that had been killed in battle. They would then fire the bodies over the walls and within a few hours or days the bodies began to rot, causing disease within the walls and obviously an awful smell. For an extra terror effect sometimes bodies or often heads of the defenders’ soldiers were fired back over the walls to strike fear into them. Trebuchets were huge catapults used usually to fire huge boulders at walls although were occasionally used against large armies and they could fire a long distance.
On the battlefield there were often not very much strategies but infact a bloodbath of both armies meeting and fighting in close quarters. Archers were often used tactically to demoralise the enemy, as well as terror units such as axeman who could cleave a man and horse in two with one blow.
Cavalry were used to break enemy ranks and also to confuse and frighten the enemy soldiers.
I hope I was of help
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Interest in military history