helepolis

Helepolis (, meaning: "Taker of Cities") is the Greek name for a movable siege tower.

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Weapon.name: Helepolis (Taker of Cities)
Weapon.image: File:Helepolis.png
Weapon.caption: A Helepolis-like Siege Engine showing catapults, stairs and movement capstan.
Weapon.origin: Ancient Greece
Weapon.type: Siege tower
Weapon.is_vehicle: yes
Weapon.designer: Polyidus of Thessaly
Weapon.crew: 3,400
Weapon.armour: Iron plates
Weapon.primary_armament: 2× catapults 4× catapults 10× catapults
Weapon.secondary_armament: 4× dart throwers

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Description
Siege of Rhodes
Later use
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Helepolis (, meaning: "Taker of Cities") is the Greek name for a movable siege tower.

The most famous was that invented by Polyidus of Thessaly, and improved by Demetrius I of Macedon and Epimachus of Athens, for the Siege of Rhodes (305 BC). Descriptions of it were written by Diodorus Siculus, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus.