PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryArt@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 months agoModel of Gallic-style settlement walls, ~1st century BCEupload.wikimedia.orgimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up166arrow-down11
arrow-up165arrow-down1imageModel of Gallic-style settlement walls, ~1st century BCEupload.wikimedia.orgPugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryArt@piefed.socialEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squarehumble_boatsman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoHell yeah. Lincoln log walls. I woulda been a champ in BCE
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoAnd moats! Don’t forget the moats. Very important, moats.
minus-squarehenfredemars@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou don’t want them to dig under your walls do you?
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 months agoI think a ditch would be more of what was used back then. Most sieges were not engineering attacks but rather brute force attacks.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoOh for sure, I meant a ditch, to me a moat can also be a ditch. Definitely have a ditch. Several. You can’t have too few.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoI most certainly would not want them to do that! That’s like, my least favorite thing to have done to my settlement walls!
Hell yeah. Lincoln log walls. I woulda been a champ in BCE
And moats! Don’t forget the moats. Very important, moats.
You don’t want them to dig under your walls do you?
I think a ditch would be more of what was used back then. Most sieges were not engineering attacks but rather brute force attacks.
Oh for sure, I meant a ditch, to me a moat can also be a ditch. Definitely have a ditch. Several. You can’t have too few.
I most certainly would not want them to do that! That’s like, my least favorite thing to have done to my settlement walls!