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Re: Castle design against seige craft
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:35:34 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Matt Penney writes:
> 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.
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.
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> 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?
I can't say I've ever heard of these being used. Generally a ram is going to
go against the physically weakest part of the wall, which is invariably the
gate, no matter how well that is defended. The defense wouldn't spike the very
road they used to get in and out of the castle, and covering the rest of the
castle perimeter has a number of problems.
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> 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?
It always depended on the actual castle site and what was available. Castles
were often set on natural slopes that accomplished this.
Bruce
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