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5tatic55 t1_irtakk3 wrote

I do know that various siege towers would have metal plates...

Remember the siege towers from "LOTR: The Return Of The King"? They would look similar to this, but not as cool.

The metal plates would provide protection from fire, and arrows.

I'm not exactly sure they would use this method on stone walls as they already provide adequate protection from both..

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HDH2506 OP t1_irx16ek wrote

Exactly like LOTR. My brother played Shadow of War and there’s metal clad walls.

I thought: “This is the second reference to this method, why haven’t I seen it in fictions, ever? Maybe it’s actually an extremely rare historical thing?”

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5tatic55 t1_irx6k3l wrote

I believe it was somewhat rare. Most were made up of wood, as metal plates were exceedingly hard to produce in that era, but not impossible..

If you look into "The army that moved a mountain", otherwise know as "The Siege of Masada" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada (that's the Wiki), they used the metal plate tactics there, I know there are some good YouTube videos of it too.

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Razial22 t1_irtcqza wrote

Ehh fire can still destroy stones. It makes them very brittle

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5tatic55 t1_irtdzzs wrote

It can also cause some rocks to explode.. But that wasn't really something that was happening in that period.. They didn't really have fire weapons that burned hot enough to destroy stone walls. They still used catapults, and trebuchets for that purpose. (Depending on the era of coarse)

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