Which sovernty in the ancient and medieval world is the greatest siege warfare.

Alfredthegreat

Knight

Old Guard

• Sep 21, 2014

• #1

New thread, which has the greatest siege warfare, invented, fought.

My vote goes to the chinese, they have invented gunpower and many other siege engines.

 

Skot the Sanguine

Sergeant Knight

Old Guard

• Sep 21, 2014

• #2

Not meaning to offend you, but this poll has many flaws.  For example "Europe"...what does that mean?  Isn't Rome in Europe?  Besides, you forgot the Greeks on the list.  They are (especially Syracuse, in Sicily) arguably one of the most skilled in it, if not the most.

 

matmohair1

Marquis

Old Guard

• Sep 21, 2014

• #3

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Alfredthegreat

Knight

Old Guard

• Sep 21, 2014

• #4

Skot the Sanguine said:

Not meaning to offend you, but this poll has many flaws.  For example "Europe"...what does that mean?  Isn't Rome in Europe?  Besides, you forgot the Greeks on the list.  They are (especially Syracuse, in Sicily) arguably one of the most skilled in it, if not the most.

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I will edit the poll, by europe I mean medieval europe of west and central east, I will put greece on there.

 

Kharille

Knight at Arms

Old Guard

• Sep 24, 2014

• #5

The Mongolians were useless at siege warfares and had to employ Chinese engineers.  Not sure how they took their earliest cities. 

Still, I guess their had an amazing propaganda team.  Send a few survivors with stories of mountains of skulls..  and the others start surrendering.

 

matmohair1

Marquis

Old Guard

• Sep 24, 2014

• #6

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ancalimon

Baron

Old Guard

• Sep 26, 2014

• #7

Ottoman Empire in medieval times probably.

Apart from that, I guess in ancient times, it was mostly about starving the enemy to death.

 

Skot the Sanguine

Sergeant Knight

Old Guard

• Sep 26, 2014

• #8

Something that should be clarified is whether this is really about who INVENTED the greatest variety of siege weaponry or who USED the greatest variety of siege weaponry.

Personally, I feel invention is the greatest criteria, since later groups could just copy what earlier peoples had already come up with (and inherently meaning that later nations/peoples have an advantage due to the natural snowball-like increase of weaponry with time).

 

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Duke

Old Guard

• Sep 26, 2014

• #9

ancalimon said:

Apart from that, I guess in ancient times, it was mostly about starving the enemy to death.

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Yeah, from what I've read about Greeks, they seem to have such big phalli when it comes to siege warfare, but most of the time they were just duking it out in front of the city walls or just trying to sit it through.

 

Kharille

Knight at Arms

Old Guard

• Sep 27, 2014

• #10

10 years at Troy, and in the end they developed a siege weapon which fooled the Trojans.  Maybe the engines didn't work and the guys were locked inside.