Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

These alliance sieges feature the full panoply of an Age of Empires match: troops, ships, and siege weapons can all ... resources to bring back to your castle and strengthen your empire with.

Age of Empires 2 simply cannot be stopped ... one of the weirdest units in the DLC—the mounted trebuchet. This is a siege weapon that is apparently "carried around by camels".

If you knew a siege was coming, you stocked up even more. In 1173, for example, Salisbury Castle thought it was going to be besieged so it stocked up with corn, wheat, bacon, cheese, beans ...