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Re: Castle wall idea - using 3 x 3 x 6 Corners
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Sun, 16 May 2004 05:11:22 GMT
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On Sun, 16 May 2004, Jeff Shiner wrote:
> In lugnet.castle, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Jeff Shiner wrote:
> > > http://members.rogers.com/jashiner/wall1.JPG
> > > http://members.rogers.com/jashiner/wall2.JPG
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> > Looks nice. I don't know prototypical it is (I can think of a few
> > military problems with a wall built that way) but it looks strong and
> > imposing.
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> Thanks for the feedback. Military problems in defending or attacking?
Defending. The point of projecting towers is so the defenders can sweep
the fronts of the walls with projectile fire. With a wavy front, an
attacker standing between two of the waves would be hard(er) to hit,
because the wall itself would be defending him.
Also, I suspect that this design might make it easier for weapons that
target the walls (catapults, battering rams, etc.) to be guided into
hitting the same spot on the wall repeatedly. Then again, all the angles
might mean that projectiles will tend to hit obliquely and bounce off
at an angle instead of hitting the wall straight on, thus making the walls
*more* resistant to direct attack.
> > And the towers don't live up to their wall; they're these wispy little
> > things on big, beefy walls.
> Do you think both towers are too small or just the corner towers.
The corner towers, really. The larger towers have a pretty good heft.
They do seem out of place, though---maybe because they're a different
color and square towers in a nonsquare wall.
TWS Garrison
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| (...) I wonder if it would be harder to get a ladder up to a wavy wall, though. (...) In fact, it doesn't. That principle only holds true if the oblique angle tends to deflect shot into open air. If it deflects shot into a pocket point of the (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Thanks for the feedback. Military problems in defending or attacking? (...) I agree about the slopes at the bottom... but I didn't want a moat. I'll have to play with them more to see what I can come up with. Do you think both towers are too (...) (20 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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