Friendly reminder that the original function of a castle was as a base of operations to loot, rape, and kill your neighbors.
So…
They also serve as a passive invasion deterrent. If an enemy army enters your land you retreat to your castles. The enemy now faces a choice: do they invest each castle or pass them by. If they pass them the soldiers in the castle can ride out and harass your foragers. If you lay siege to the castle and a rival army shows up, the enemy is now between the hammer and the anvil.
Not saying you’re wrong, I just fuckin’ love the history of castles.
Damn you, Xanatoss!
like i feel like a mansion compound, like bezos and gates would own, has comparable defense without having the main problem with castles like the wasted space also there is the classic problem of siege tech a big reason why we don’t do castles or big walls around our cities is because cannons wreck them, so imagine what some modern day explosives could do against one of these big targets
something something something no excuses for the terror
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