How to Build the Perfect Castle
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Date: 2022-09-12
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Bindair
My father told me when I was a kid, I loved drawing castles. It was before the age of the internet, and we weren't travelling much, so my imagination and what I have seen in movies were all I knew about castles or warfare. And every time I finished a drawing, I planned an assault on it, found a weakness, and designed the next one to eliminate that flaw. And every time I learned something new about medieval warfare, like siege weapons, I added it to the next design. Wish I had any of those drawings now, because I don't remember any of it. Would be fun to analyze them.
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My father told me when I was a kid, I loved drawing castles. It was before the age of the internet, and we weren't travelling much, so my imagination and what I have seen in movies were all I knew about castles or warfare. And every time I finished a drawing, I planned an assault on it, found a weakness, and designed the next one to eliminate that flaw. And every time I learned something new about medieval warfare, like siege weapons, I added it to the next design. Wish I had any of those drawings now, because I don't remember any of it. Would be fun to analyze them.
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alfons
In my little opinion it is much better to close the top wall, like the hoardings but built in stones no extended structure outside the walls, V shape roofs with cross style loopholes. Open top wall is a weakness to any fortress it can be attacked using siege towers and ladders and rope. With the close top wall it can't be attack easily even by siege towers and the attacking army can't use ladders and rope because the troops can't get in!
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In my little opinion it is much better to close the top wall, like the hoardings but built in stones no extended structure outside the walls, V shape roofs with cross style loopholes. Open top wall is a weakness to any fortress it can be attacked using siege towers and ladders and rope. With the close top wall it can't be attack easily even by siege towers and the attacking army can't use ladders and rope because the troops can't get in!
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Julian
Hmmmm. or is the boot on the other foot? A /location/ is strategically important so a castle /has/ to be built there to defend it. /then/ make the most of available topography. Not 'A castle would fit here' but the location is insignificant in military terms. Also mentioned is reusing old Roman fortifications. The Romans probably fortified it in the first place because the location was strategically important.
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Hmmmm. or is the boot on the other foot? A /location/ is strategically important so a castle /has/ to be built there to defend it. /then/ make the most of available topography. Not 'A castle would fit here' but the location is insignificant in military terms. Also mentioned is reusing old Roman fortifications. The Romans probably fortified it in the first place because the location was strategically important.
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MrCarrick91
When he said about the removable wooden stairs it made me think of the castle where I live and how it's visitor entrance suddenly makes so much more sense. Then he put up a picture of Rochester Castle!
For anybody not aware, Rochester Castle actually has a great story as to how it came to have just one round tower on the keep; with the rest being square. It envolves a seige, King John and 40 Pigs
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When he said about the removable wooden stairs it made me think of the castle where I live and how it's visitor entrance suddenly makes so much more sense. Then he put up a picture of Rochester Castle!
For anybody not aware, Rochester Castle actually has a great story as to how it came to have just one round tower on the keep; with the rest being square. It envolves a seige, King John and 40 Pigs
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jan80trs
For starters, great video.
Having visited castles all over western Europe - Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, UK - I wonder why only one castle of Master James of St. George is mentioned: Harlech. I think that another one of his designs matches your definition of a Perfect Castle very closely: Beaumaris castle: a concentric castle, where 2 keeps were build into the inner defence wall.
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For starters, great video.
Having visited castles all over western Europe - Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, UK - I wonder why only one castle of Master James of St. George is mentioned: Harlech. I think that another one of his designs matches your definition of a Perfect Castle very closely: Beaumaris castle: a concentric castle, where 2 keeps were build into the inner defence wall.
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John
Moats have had another function ( dunno if builder knew about it or not) which was initially their primary function and that was to keep soil around castle in optimal condition which in return was making soil much more stable. Most likely ( along with general robustness of castles too) it was a factor being them being so solid.
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Moats have had another function ( dunno if builder knew about it or not) which was initially their primary function and that was to keep soil around castle in optimal condition which in return was making soil much more stable. Most likely ( along with general robustness of castles too) it was a factor being them being so solid.
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Kasper
To bad that the don't have any pictures Kronborg (Crown Castle) og Hammershus (house of the Hammer)
Kronborg was used to threat ship along the Sound of Denmark to come to the castle and pay the Soundtoll ( which basicly fueled the danish economy for large periods of time)
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To bad that the don't have any pictures Kronborg (Crown Castle) og Hammershus (house of the Hammer)
Kronborg was used to threat ship along the Sound of Denmark to come to the castle and pay the Soundtoll ( which basicly fueled the danish economy for large periods of time)
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loze
in France Philippe Auguste is known for having spread the model of the Philippian castle which consisted of a square flanked by 4 to 6 circular towers as well as 1 or 2 doors (there is also a relatively well-preserved example in Brie-comte-Robert (Seine et Marne)
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in France Philippe Auguste is known for having spread the model of the Philippian castle which consisted of a square flanked by 4 to 6 circular towers as well as 1 or 2 doors (there is also a relatively well-preserved example in Brie-comte-Robert (Seine et Marne)
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Shawn
one problem with using your flooded moat as a fishing hole. your toilets dumped directly into the moat, making it more of an open sewer than a fishing hole. If you were not blessed with fast flowing water, you were going to kill everyone withing the walls.
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one problem with using your flooded moat as a fishing hole. your toilets dumped directly into the moat, making it more of an open sewer than a fishing hole. If you were not blessed with fast flowing water, you were going to kill everyone withing the walls.
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Euclois
i'd just like to add that water moats were NOT a source of fresh water nor fishing. it was more like a sewage, all fecal waste would be thrown into the moat, enemies knew the dangers of trying to cross the moat as it was a deadly source of diseases.
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i'd just like to add that water moats were NOT a source of fresh water nor fishing. it was more like a sewage, all fecal waste would be thrown into the moat, enemies knew the dangers of trying to cross the moat as it was a deadly source of diseases.
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education
My perfect castle would have a gator or crocodile filled most with piranhas for good measure. I'd need that because if I had a castle it means I hit big in the lottery and I would need protection for the greedy ingrates that share some of my DNA.
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My perfect castle would have a gator or crocodile filled most with piranhas for good measure. I'd need that because if I had a castle it means I hit big in the lottery and I would need protection for the greedy ingrates that share some of my DNA.
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Dylan
I believe the decorative cross shaped arrow loops are actually so both crossbow man and longbowman could use the same loops effectively. Arrow slits specific for cross bows are just horizontal slits.
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I believe the decorative cross shaped arrow loops are actually so both crossbow man and longbowman could use the same loops effectively. Arrow slits specific for cross bows are just horizontal slits.
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Magus
How to bring down any medieval castles:
With catapults, send infected
heads with viruses. Add crowns
to induce fear.
Let macerate. Come back after
of the castle holders.
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How to bring down any medieval castles:
With catapults, send infected
heads with viruses. Add crowns
to induce fear.
Let macerate. Come back after
of the castle holders.
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Evan
This is by far the best video Ive seen on YT explaining castles. Perfect balance of history, architecture, and beautiful CGI artwork. Well done. Please dont ever stop making great content!
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This is by far the best video Ive seen on YT explaining castles. Perfect balance of history, architecture, and beautiful CGI artwork. Well done. Please dont ever stop making great content!
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Zayne
a centre of justice and government BAAAHHAAAAHHAAA, more like a centre for cruelty and institutional violence by authoritarian rulers who today would be called dictators and war criminals
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a centre of justice and government BAAAHHAAAAHHAAA, more like a centre for cruelty and institutional violence by authoritarian rulers who today would be called dictators and war criminals
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Max
Great Information, It will help me fight the vassals who rose up against me: ) while leading the Kingdom of Ireland
I Been Playing Crusader Kings for years; CK 2 and CK 3
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Great Information, It will help me fight the vassals who rose up against me: ) while leading the Kingdom of Ireland
I Been Playing Crusader Kings for years; CK 2 and CK 3
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Thijs
Love the game, i've restablished the Roman Empire and followed the path of Alexander the Great. Thought it to me a couple 100 years more than the real thing
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Love the game, i've restablished the Roman Empire and followed the path of Alexander the Great. Thought it to me a couple 100 years more than the real thing
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Dwight
The PERFECT CASTLE is the smallest, simplest and cheapest structure in exactly the right location that fulfills the its purpose for defense and control.
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The PERFECT CASTLE is the smallest, simplest and cheapest structure in exactly the right location that fulfills the its purpose for defense and control.
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Adam
15: 04 it's not supposed, it never fell. The way the hospitallers lost it was by forging a letter from their grandmaster ordering them to surrender it.
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15: 04 it's not supposed, it never fell. The way the hospitallers lost it was by forging a letter from their grandmaster ordering them to surrender it.
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sampiness
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We have intelligent stuff to say. We'll immediately undermine it with a shitty ad that last three minutes instead of making it less obtrusive.
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