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-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!
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!