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The Sims Medieval is a life-simulation game with action-adventure elements, having a more role-playing video game tone than past Sims games. [2] The storyline of the game is to build a successful kingdom by fulfilling the player's "Kingdom Ambition", which the player chooses at the start of the game.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 January 2025. 2014 video game 2014 video game The Sims 4 Cover art since 2019 Developer(s) Maxis [a] Publisher(s) Electronic Arts Director(s) Michael Duke Berjes Enriquez Jim Rogers Robert Vernick Producer(s) Kevin Gibson Grant Rodiek Ryan Vaughan Designer(s) Eric Holmberg-Weidler Matt Yang Artist(s ...
Murder holes at Bodiam Castle. A murder hole or meurtrière is a hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could shoot, throw or pour harmful substances or objects such as rocks, arrows, scalding water, hot sand, quicklime, or boiling oil, down on attackers.
[4] Oxybeles: 375 BC Greece: An oversized gastraphetes, a composite bow placed on a stand with a stock and a trigger. Helepolis: 305 BC Rhodes: Greek siege tower first used in Rhodes. [5] Polybolos: 289 BC Greece: A siege engine with torsion mechanism, drawing its power from twisted sinew-bundles. Sambuca: 213 BC Sicily: Roman seaborne siege ...
Siege engine in Assyrian relief of attack on an enemy town during the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III 743-720 BC from his palace at Kalhu (Nimrud). The earliest siege engines appear to be simple movable roofed towers used for cover to advance to the defenders' walls in conjunction with scaling ladders, depicted during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. [2]
Download QR code; Print/export ... This is a list of weapons that were used during the medieval ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Reconstructed wooden hoarding around the Cité de Carcassonne, France. A hoard or hoarding was a temporary wooden shed-like construction on the exterior of a castle during a siege that enabled the defenders to improve their field of fire along the length of a wall and, most particularly, directly downwards towards the bottom of the wall. [1]
View of Thurant Castle on the Moselle from the Bleidenberg hill. In castle science, and according to mediaeval usage, a counter-castle was a type of castle that was built to secure a territorial lord's claims to power or to besiege and conquer the estates of rival rulers. In such cases, it may also be referred to as a siege castle.