[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jakenan

Launching?

Oh, right. Standard practice for taking a stronghold in medieval times generally involved some combination of three or four methods.
1) Take a battering ram and "knock on the door". (Easily foiled by a moat with drawbridge.)
2) Dig in--dig under or through the wall. Sometimes accompanied by collapsing the wall to make a breach.
3) And if you didn't have manpower to waste, you'd throw things* using whatever catapults you could come up with.
4) Storm the castle. If you need an idea of that... just watch the orcs in Lord of the Rings a few times. (ladders, grappling hooks, climbing on each others' heads...) Usually used after one of the first three. (I'm ignoring #5, Siege, because that takes a tad too long.)

So... I could see some BLT robots "knocking on the door"; I could NOT see someone trying to dig (that's just not going to fly in most arenas); I could definitely see some flying balls of one size or another (been a while since the dodgeballs were used, over 10 years as I recall--after being quite a common game piece!).

*Rocks, rocks soaked in oil and set on fire, and just about anything else that could cause your opponent harm.