Sentence examples for siege weapons from inspiring English sources

To the poor, books are siege weapons.

We'll also need a full arsenal of ballistae to fire spears at the invaders and mangonels to launch pots of burning pitch at their siege weapons.

Much like Diablo or Dungeon Siege, weapons that can't be used in your initial two weapon slots can be used as currency when you find an NPC trader.

The destroying is done with creatures, heroes, siege weapons, structures or enchantments that a player has access to via his collection of scrolls or cards.

This strategy game gives you your chance to dominate the Eastern Mediterranean, as you lead the forces of Sparta, Persia and Egypt through three vast campaigns in this visually rich real-time strategy game that lets you command warships, chariots, cavalry and siege weapons.

As soon as Baibars arrived he erected mangonels, powerful siege weapons which he would later turn on the castle.

These are the same passionate few who spend their weekends competing at robotics fairs or tossing pumpkins from homemade trebuchets, a catapult-like medieval siege weapon.

Although the king ultimately gave up the siege and signed a treaty with Rhodes so that they would not aid Ptolemy, tales of the massive siege weapon lived on.

Although it is not essential for the completion of stages, having a siege weapon will increase morale for the player's forces, and help the player succeed.

The trebuchet, which probably evolved from the petraria in the 13th century, was the most effective siege weapon before the development of cannons.

By the 1450s guns were the preferred siege weapon, and their effectiveness was demonstrated by Mehmed II at the Fall of Constantinople.