Sonic# wrote: ↑Wed Sep 25, 2024 1:44 pm
LOTR did have siege towers. They roll up to Minas Tirith and open their gangplanks onto the walls of the first level. The Total War game series also sometimes features them.
Historical ones weren't as far-traveling as the Grindery. Armies would usually construct them near the site of a siege since it would be so logistically costly to transport them long distances.
Actually, the siege towers could be moved all the way from hangars, though they also constructed them on site in many cases, turning those areas into massive lumberyards, sawmills, and factories for mass producing these massive war machines. They could even mount them on ships, turning the ships into armored battleships called naval siege towers:
Before this, around the 500s BCE, the Chinese already had armored ships called Louchuan that used wetted animal hides to protect the ship from flaming arrows, flaming spears, fire jars, and fire pots:
At the same time, the Japanese invented a house and wall armored ship called a Sekibune:
They also created a version of the Sekibune that used wooden shields in combination with the house:
Eventually, other types of armored ships were invented in Europe such as castle ships that had wooden castles with firing ports for artillery mounted on them:
The European navies also started using bomb hurlers that could hurl incendiary or exploding barrels:
The European navies also started using armored flamethrower galleys:
In 1000 CE, Erik Hakkonson of the Viking Empire invented the 1st ironclad ship called the Iron Ram, which has a wooden hull reinforced with iron bands, and eventually built a fleet of them to use in the naval battle of Svoldr:
In 1203, Admiral Qin Shifu invents the 1st fully ironclad ship propelled by a combination of sails and animal driven paddlewheels:
In the 1400s, the Koreans start using ships with armored roofs made of iron and with iron spikes called turtle ships or Panokseon:
The Islamic Caliphate also had armored ships that used wooden houses with ports called balangays, karakoas, dhows, and shalandis:
All of these armored ships were armed with ballistae, catapults, pump operated flamethrowers, cannons, mines, and rockets.
There were also other types of armored ground vehicles, such as:
Armored Horses:
Armored War Elephants:
Armored Carts:
Armored Carriages:
War Wagons:
Tower Wagons:
Mobile Yurts:
Mobile Tents:
Armored Siege Tortoises with Counterweight Battering Rams:
Armored Counterweight Battering Rams:
Cloud Ladders:
Armored Siege Towers with Counterweight Battering Rams:
