Timeline for Why bother attacking castles at all? Why not go around?
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| Jan 17, 2018 at 8:33 | comment | added | Semaphore | @Caracoid This is a Q&A site, not a discussion forum; we welcome efforts to answer a question, but merely critiquing other answers does not constitute an answer in and of itself. If you register an account and accumulate 50 rep, you can post comments, which are much more appropriate places for criticising other answers. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 4:20 | comment | added | Caracoid | @Mark: I doubt if in an effort to find the truth that questioning logic is prohibited on this site (or any other). Just because we're talking about fortifications in the dark ages doesn't mean we have to place our brains there. | |
| Jan 17, 2018 at 4:16 | comment | added | Caracoid | @Semaphore: Your first point presumes a value to a castle to begin with; the second point is only valid for as long as a castle's garrison can hold out. Bypassing a castle for six months or a year is a lot cheaper than building one to begin with. And whether its fewer men needed by forcing the enemy to attack you or somewhat more is immaterial when, again, you have at your command copious resources not spent on building castles in the first place. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | MCW♦ | This is not an answer but a commentary on other answers. It is likely to be flagged and deleted. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 17:58 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 17:54 | comment | added | Semaphore | Of course you can go around any castle if you're willing to take a long enough detour. But you're ignoring that a) the castles often were the strategically valuable targets, and b) Forcing an enemy to take the long way around was half the value of a good castle. The idea that "a force of fewer men" can besiege a castle is also quite extraordinary, considering there's nothing forcing the defenders to charge your battlements, and spreading a smaller force around in a perimeter weakens every point on the line. | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 17:43 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 16, 2018 at 17:39 | history | answered | Caracoid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |