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Re: Castle wall idea - using 3 x 3 x 6 Corners
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Sun, 16 May 2004 10:12:25 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Sun, 16 May 2004, Jeff Shiner wrote:
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> > In lugnet.castle, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> > > On Sun, 16 May 2004, Jeff Shiner wrote:
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> > > > 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?
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> 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.
I wonder if it would be harder to get a ladder up to a wavy
wall, though.
> 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.
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 vehicle or building,
it's what is known as a "shot trap," which is not good because
it tends to concentrate the kinetic energy of projectiles at
or around a single point. I presume the principle would work
with trebuchets and catapults just as it works with 8.8cm
artillery, just without such extreme amounts of energy.
all best
LFB
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 16-May-04, to lugnet.castle)
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