 | | Castle design against seige craft —Matt Penney
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Castle design against seige craft —Kevin Hall
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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)
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| | | | | Re: Castle design against seige craft —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
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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)
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| | | | | | | Re: Castle design against seige craft —Eric Brouwer
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| | | | | | What book are you reading? Eric (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Castle design against seige craft —Bruce Schlickbernd
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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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