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Oke, subject; a siege. In RTW you must destroy the walls or you must use siege towers to get the man up the enemy walls so you can capture the town. This was 2000 year ago. In century's a lott of thinks have changed. In the 18th and the early 19th century this wasnt the same. To defend a city, they where building Fortress town's.
"Since earliest history, man has wanted to defend its property. Against wild animals, fire, flooding and against his fellow man.
Houses were being build of stone, to prevent them from catching fire. Holes in the wall were made to shoot arrows through. With merlons on top of the wall, the defenders were protected from enemy arrows and with a moat around the place an enemy first had to pass through that moat. A moat filled with water was even more difficult to pass.
Those castles were able to withstand attackers armed with swords and bow and arrow. However, when gunpowder became available and thus guns with big, heavy shot could fire at a castle, the stone walls could not withstand this battering and could be breached.
When covering those stone walls with earth or sand, shot had little effect. The cannonballs smothered in the earthen wall. Combined with a moat, attacking such a walled town became a difficult proposition. A fort like that or a town with earthen walls was called a “fortress or fortified place”.
The defenders wanted to be able to shoot back at the attacker and make his work more difficult. They found out that if you added fivepointed extensions to the walls (bulwarks), it became possible to cover the whole outside of the fortress and the moat. Those areas were called bastions and in the bastions, underground casemates with gun emplacements were build. This way, for centuries a fortress town adapted with all military development." http://www.vestingmuseum.nl/eng/index.html
Fort Naarden:
Is this the same as in Imperial Glory? Will there be fortress that are defending important town's? Or will it the same as in MTW, where the gate's are open. So if you are attacking Paris, you can walk in to the city with out a siege? Maybe i am wrong, because of this pic:
But this isnt correct. Stone walls and cannons?? In the text above it says that they used walls of earth.
Someone can explain this?
"Since earliest history, man has wanted to defend its property. Against wild animals, fire, flooding and against his fellow man.
Houses were being build of stone, to prevent them from catching fire. Holes in the wall were made to shoot arrows through. With merlons on top of the wall, the defenders were protected from enemy arrows and with a moat around the place an enemy first had to pass through that moat. A moat filled with water was even more difficult to pass.
Those castles were able to withstand attackers armed with swords and bow and arrow. However, when gunpowder became available and thus guns with big, heavy shot could fire at a castle, the stone walls could not withstand this battering and could be breached.
When covering those stone walls with earth or sand, shot had little effect. The cannonballs smothered in the earthen wall. Combined with a moat, attacking such a walled town became a difficult proposition. A fort like that or a town with earthen walls was called a “fortress or fortified place”.
The defenders wanted to be able to shoot back at the attacker and make his work more difficult. They found out that if you added fivepointed extensions to the walls (bulwarks), it became possible to cover the whole outside of the fortress and the moat. Those areas were called bastions and in the bastions, underground casemates with gun emplacements were build. This way, for centuries a fortress town adapted with all military development." http://www.vestingmuseum.nl/eng/index.html
Fort Naarden:
Is this the same as in Imperial Glory? Will there be fortress that are defending important town's? Or will it the same as in MTW, where the gate's are open. So if you are attacking Paris, you can walk in to the city with out a siege? Maybe i am wrong, because of this pic:
But this isnt correct. Stone walls and cannons?? In the text above it says that they used walls of earth.
Someone can explain this?
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Very likely if both types were historically used, both types will be historically avalible in the game.
I live in Halifax, Canada, and we have citadel of that type that was eventually built:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/images/hcair.gif
But it wasn't started until 1828 and took 28 years to finish...
By then rifled artillery had made it obsolete.
My guess is that the technology to destroy fortresses evolved in occassional leaps and jumps, but the ability to build new fortresses to counter the new weapons took much, much longer. As such, there are going to be times when completely outdated fortifications were still in use against weapons that made them virtually obsolete.
But while on the topic, are their any shoreline battery emplacements (Like Martello Tower's) for Naval coastal defences?
I live in Halifax, Canada, and we have citadel of that type that was eventually built:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/images/hcair.gif
But it wasn't started until 1828 and took 28 years to finish...
By then rifled artillery had made it obsolete.
My guess is that the technology to destroy fortresses evolved in occassional leaps and jumps, but the ability to build new fortresses to counter the new weapons took much, much longer. As such, there are going to be times when completely outdated fortifications were still in use against weapons that made them virtually obsolete.
But while on the topic, are their any shoreline battery emplacements (Like Martello Tower's) for Naval coastal defences?
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I havent seen screenshots with coastal defences on it. Only sea battle's far from land. I am not thinking they have put that in the game. You can blockade a port without losses , because there are no naval coast defencesses?zzxxcc wrote:Very likely if both types were historically used, both types will be historically avalible in the game.
I live in Halifax, Canada, and we have citadel of that type that was eventually built:
http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/images/hcair.gif
But it wasn't started until 1828 and took 28 years to finish...
By then rifled artillery had made it obsolete.
My guess is that the technology to destroy fortresses evolved in occassional leaps and jumps, but the ability to build new fortresses to counter the new weapons took much, much longer. As such, there are going to be times when completely outdated fortifications were still in use against weapons that made them virtually obsolete.
But while on the topic, are their any shoreline battery emplacements (Like Martello Tower's) for Naval coastal defences?
I hope not......
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I think you can only mount troops on the walls of the big 18th/19th century fortified towns with bastions and wide walkways. I could not get troops or guns on the walls of the English castle, but you can occupy the buildings. Some of the forts in this game are stunning. Here are two shots of St. Petersburg in Izhora province, one showing troops and artillery on the walls.
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