What Is Medieval Warfare

Medieval Warfare

The Medieval time was a significant part in the history of the human race with many important event happening in this time, it also brought an assortment advancements , some bad and some good. The biggest advancements that happened during the medieval ages is the warfare and the technology associated with it. Without the warfare that went on during this 1000 year period we wouldn't have the weapons and strategies that we have today making medieval warfare the building grounds for modern warfare.

Back then, wars weren’t fought buy by shooting each other and bombing the army's home city and everyone in it but fought by 2 armies going head to head with with blades, blunt weapons and some ranged weapons. One of these ranged

Some of the best strategies/formations that were used are the cavalry tactic, missile troop strategie, and the infantry tactic. The most successful of all these was the missile troop strategie, this is when rows of archers would have 3 different types of bows: a long bow, cross bow, and then a short bow using one after another. This strategy was the most successful because it was good in war and in sieging with its downfall being it used a lot of supplies and it isn't good in drawn out battles. Battles would consist both armies would have a formation and try battle and as soon as one of the armies formations breaks is when the other army would start to take control of the battle. Some of the different troops that are used in battle during the medieval era consisted of knights, archers, and horsemen. Knights would either have a long sword or an Arming sword with metal or chain mail armour and the horseman would be riding on top of a horse wearing the same things. Archers would have cloth and/or chainmail armour and would have 1-3 different weapons or all of them, they are: Long bow, Short bow, and Crossbow. In conclusion because of all the

This is when one army would decide to try and take over a village or in most cases, a castle. Castles are forts consisting of a village/town surrounded by massive walls with some sort of heavy door for a way in and out. There was also a building where the king and his family would live in the village/town. Castles were build to stop small to medium groups from pillaging the village/town: vikings, Arabs, Mongols, and Magyars protecting the King, his family, and servants, and everyone inside the walls. But how would they siege these castles? There was many different way some being catapulting dead animals into the town which would spread diseases around the town weakening it from the inside or having a ram tower that would break down the heavy door allowing for troops to go inside and pillage. An example of a modern day “Castle” would be the White house. Though it doesn’t have big walls surrounding it does have a 7 foot fence and many guards. In conclusion the castle and strategies at attacking that happened in the medieval times it has allowed us to think about what worked best and how we can improve on it to get the best