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Also, I will make covered vehicles, safe and unassailable, which will penetrate the enemy and their artillery, and there is no host of armed men so grea
by rodionos 11y ago
Also, I will make covered vehicles, safe and unassailable,
which will penetrate the enemy and their artillery,
and there is no host of armed men so great that they would not break through it.
And behind these the infantry will be able to follow, quite uninjured and unimpeded.
I assume this covers tanks?
- seren 11y agoProbably something like : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_fighting_vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_fighting_vehicle
- VLM 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_tower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_tower Really the only thing that made defensive walls useful for sieges in that era was the fact no one had any decent portable fireproof siege towers, so most towers ended up burnt down, unless the city under siege literally ran out of things to light on fire and toss into the (wooden) tower. Also see "moat". Defensive troops on the walls were pretty good at tipping towers over with ropes or whatever, too. You'll note like a good engineer he promises all the easy stuff like logs being pretty good at stopping arrows, and doesn't mention the unfixable parts like "it'll burn" or "it'll tip over".