> 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.
There is an easy answer to this. Attacking the walls on the far side
of the picture would be much wiser then attacking the gatehouse. But
you have to be able to get your army ontop of the mesa that is
assumed to continue off to the right of the picture.
The Lunars have magics or technology or both that allow them to get
to the top of the mesa behind the fortress. Enter some cool quests
and seven ramps and the army can storm the mesa behind the fortress
and attack the weakest walls.