> It seems to me that trying to smash the walls is a WASTE OF TIME. They are
> magiked to prevent change and resist change so if I was a Lunar General I
would
Also, Oppidae/hillforts with their timber-laced, dirt-filled 40-foot thick "walls" are pretty impervious to battering, which is what stone-throwers are best at. Curtain walls (like medieval castles or Middle-eastern mud-brick walls) are vulnerable to a good bashing. You also have to figure that a lot of missile will impact on the Tor itself, and not do a lot of damage (of course, there *has* to be a scene of a bit of wall collapsing and sliding down the cliff face, with screaming people falling and getting crushed under tons of rock, but it's only a minor wall, and it doesn't really make a usefule ramp or breach).
> go for soft targets. Undermining would be dangerous as the Orlanthi would
> collapse them so a ramp to the walls and ladders, siege towers and Mostali
Assault
> Ladders to get over the walls is the best if not the only way to go.
Romans
> at Masada numbered 10K to 15K people including Jewish prisoners of war
used for
> ramp building which took about nine months.
The Seven of Vistur were probably specially summoned from the Empire to build their ramps, plus such an undertaking would require quite a bit of preparation and ritual - these aren't casual feats to be tossed off with a quick prayer!
> Chucking huge rocks at the walls is probably a bad idea but the rock
> equivelent of grape shot will keep the Orlanthi's heads down whilst ramp
building etc
> is going on.
Yep.
> I couldn't help but chuckle with the reference to flaming war pigs. Lets
go
> the whole hog (sorry!) and have flaming war tuskers...
First, catch your tusker...
RR
It is by my order and for the good of the state that the bearer of this has
done what he has done.
- Richelieu
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