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Too, it is difficult to fire such objects, and the fires began on them by, say, small task forces are generally quickly extinguished. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #22)

What is more often done when time permits is to build portable wooden walls, some fifteen feet, or so, in height, with defensive walkways and loopholes for missiles, which are then moved in the path of the towers. Sorties, the object of which is to fire the towers, are less practical than it might seem at first glance. Such towers are usually well defended, and are often not brought into play until such excursions are for most practical purposes beyond the resources of the defenders. Too, it is difficult to fire such objects, and the fires began on them by, say, small task forces are generally quickly extinguished. At a single blast of trumpets, the eleven bridges were loosened, rattling, to the crenelation. As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descending the bridges, shields set, hurling themselves downward. Poles, and pikes, and stones, and wire, and steel and fire met them. - (Renegades of Gor)