>I LOVED this sketch but did feel the city needs to be bigger. I don't really
>see why WW should be smaller than Clearwine. I would go with the 1,200 to
>3,000, personally, although a good deal of this could be down the valleys
>outside the walls: semi-farmland, abandoned when the foraging armies arrive.
Yes it's a lovely piece of artwork but if that fortress is what's being besieged they're going to need half the Red Army to dislodge a few hundred Orlanthi. Even Shargashi wouldn't try to assault that unless a moonboat dropped them directly on the temple of Orlanth. I remember reading of one medieval castle where eight men-at-arms held off an entire army and the castle was nothing like as difficult to attack as that.
Rescaling the picture vertically by 50% makes something which could be taken by siege but direct assault is still out of the question for a sane general. That would imply that the initial attack was to take the tower to the left of the bridge. Trouble is that's a bit of a dead end as there's nowhere to launch an attack on the walls.
I'm all for making it difficult to take but if the place is too easy to defend there's no challenge.
-- Donald Oddy http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/
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