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Siege Tower
Description
Medieval era support unit. When adjacent to a city, attacking melee and anti-cavalry units ignore Walls and immediately assault the city. Does not affect cities with Renaissance Walls. Ineffective against Urban Defenses.
Historical Context
Climbing walls up ladders - while the defenders above hurled boiling oil, rocks and pointy objects down - wasn’t conducive to high morale among the troops, and so the Neo-Assyrians invented siege towers around the 9th Century BC. At the time, most of the towns in Mesopotamia were surrounded by mud-brick walls, generally sufficient protection against attackers, but the siege towers of the Assyrians allowed them to get over the walls relatively unscathed; thus their empire spread virtually unchecked for three centuries. It was an idea whose time had come, and soon enough all the ancient civilizations had siege towers in their arsenals. In simplest form, a siege tower was a covered wooden tower on wheels; once pushed near the offending wall, a gangplank was dropped to bridge the gap and happy warriors rushed into the town or castle. Made ever more sturdy and efficient by those master engineers the Romans, the siege tower was used throughout the Medieval Era, until gunpowder finally made them obsolete.
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icon_unit_siege_tower

Traits

Upgrades To
icon_unit_medic
Medic
Upgrade From
icon_unit_battering_ram
Battering Ram
Made obsolete by
icon_civic_civil_engineering
Civil Engineering
Promotion Class: Support
icon_moves
2
Movement Points

Requirements

Technology
icon_tech_machinery
Machinery
Production Cost
Base Cost: 100 Production
Purchase Cost
Base Cost: 400 Gold
Maintenance Cost
Base Cost: 2 Gold
PortraitSquare
icon_unit_siege_tower
Description
Medieval era support unit. When adjacent to a city, attacking melee and anti-cavalry units ignore Walls and immediately assault the city. Does not affect cities with Renaissance Walls. Ineffective against Urban Defenses.
Historical Context
Climbing walls up ladders - while the defenders above hurled boiling oil, rocks and pointy objects down - wasn’t conducive to high morale among the troops, and so the Neo-Assyrians invented siege towers around the 9th Century BC. At the time, most of the towns in Mesopotamia were surrounded by mud-brick walls, generally sufficient protection against attackers, but the siege towers of the Assyrians allowed them to get over the walls relatively unscathed; thus their empire spread virtually unchecked for three centuries. It was an idea whose time had come, and soon enough all the ancient civilizations had siege towers in their arsenals. In simplest form, a siege tower was a covered wooden tower on wheels; once pushed near the offending wall, a gangplank was dropped to bridge the gap and happy warriors rushed into the town or castle. Made ever more sturdy and efficient by those master engineers the Romans, the siege tower was used throughout the Medieval Era, until gunpowder finally made them obsolete.

Traits

Upgrades To
icon_unit_medic
Medic
Upgrade From
icon_unit_battering_ram
Battering Ram
Made obsolete by
icon_civic_civil_engineering
Civil Engineering
Promotion Class: Support
icon_moves
2
Movement Points

Requirements

Technology
icon_tech_machinery
Machinery
Production Cost
Base Cost: 100 Production
Purchase Cost
Base Cost: 400 Gold
Maintenance Cost
Base Cost: 2 Gold
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