>1000 years and they didn't fix the only weak spotwas this peak procrastination?
>>223943953Then you'd have a bunch of water flood the fortress. That wouldn't be good.
They didn't expect Suronman to invent gunpowder in an early medieval setting
>>223943964>place the hole way above ground levelez
>>223944002Why didn't the read the Silmarillion? Were they stupid?
>>223944038Then you have a big ass pool you need to hire a pool boy and where the heck you gonna get enough chlorine in the third age?
The fortress was abandoned and hastily haphazardly repaired. Rohirrim were not familiar with siege warfare, using fortifications as civilian evacuation shelters moreso than part of war strategies, preferring open plain battles on horseback. Taking refuge to Helm's Deep was a last ditch attempt.
>>223943953HEY DIOGENESGET A TOWEL
they lacked the tax policy to fund it
>>223943953Why wasn't this grate placed on the other side of the tunnel to begin with?
>>223944941Same reason we put grates on the outer edges of structures in real life. You can figure it out if you think about it a bit.
>>223944002maybe if a wizard is attacking you,you should consider if hes going to use magic tricks.
>>223944982You can't predict what magic tricks a wizard is going to use though. You might have prepared buckets in case he conjures fire or blocked up all of the grates, but instead he chooses to recruit the mountain you built your fort in and now there's a cave-in and landslides.
>>223944975I think I would prefer "difficult to clean" over "critical flaw".
watch seven samurai again two towers is practically a remake of it. the old wise characters says that all fortresses need a weak spot the enemy has to try and attack otherwise the siege would go on forever until the besieged died of starvation(see siege of Missolonghi thats how lord byron died)
>>223944095Dig a moat
