How to Affect a Mot and Bailey Castle

The first step is very much like a burr. Get past the wall. Now compare that to assaulting a mot and Bailey castle. You need to advance on the fortification before you even reach the wooden wall. Next, you'd have to find a way to get over the wall or pull it down. Then if you were successful and you got inside, you'd basically find yourself inside the barracks. So to celebrate your victory, you would now have the joy of fighting through all the knights, soldiers, panicked horses, random cooks, and whoever else was inside the Bailey. But before you could even reach the mot, you'd need to breach the gatehouse at the far end of the