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Castle design against seige craft
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 04:18:46 GMT
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Howdy All,
I am currently playing around with ideas for my first castle. In doing
research (since I'm typically a space guy) I have found that seige craft
(towers and rams) pose the greatest threat to a walled defense.
Since a moat is hard to represent with legos would a castle on the plains use
dragon teeth like in WWII? How much does this damage the visual effect of the
"Grand Wall" idea?
Could the walls use a sharp (45 degree) angled base to prevent rams and
towers from reaching a useable position? How tall would the angle and the
total wall need to be to keep the castle appearance?
Any expert out there who can tell me if these ideas were ever employed?
Just trying to think outside the wall,
Matt
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) use (...) Matt....have a look at this site: (URL) some Castles had sloping walls at the base of towers to stop such attacks.... also have a look at: (URL) castles just had a ditch all the way round... Well hope this helps you Kev... : ) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: Castle design against seige craft
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| (...) I am working on a river (32x32 blue baseplates) and moat defenses on my current project (no pics yet due to space limitations) dragon teeth are designed to impede mass progress by infantry/cavalry and to hamper large vehicles/seige (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: Castle design against seige craft
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| (...) It depends on the amount of time available to the beseigers. Towers and rams were used in direct assaults. More insidious were mines (not particularly visual) that were used to collapse the walls from beneath. (...) use (...) I can't say I've (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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