Why build a castle on top of a mountain? It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
Why build a castle on top of a mountain? It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
Why build a castle on top of a mountain? It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
Why do white people climb mountains? What's up there?
>He doesn't know...
Sorrow and misery.
Only we know
Wolf cock
Nothing is up there. It's boring. You wouldn't like it.
wouldn't you like to know
Sky Pussy
dwarven ruins
Nothing you need to worry about.
>Why do white people climb mountains? What's up there?
There's something up there which a lot of people have heard about, but very few can tell you anything about it. However, some people who claim to be well-informed have told me that people killed in combat along with various legendary heroes and kings live up there until Ragnarök when they will march out to fight in aid of Odin against the jötnar.
Bartering with Neanderthals, they like clockwork
There are nothing but white people, you would hate it, don't join us.
I wouldn't worry about it.
>What's up there?
The top of the mountain
That's where you get White Privilege. Every White person who climbs a mountain receives their lifetime allotment of White Privilege (further climbing does nothing, but some White people do it again because at that point they're privileged and they can faff around climbing mountains for shits and giggles if they want).
If you see a White person complaining about how they don't feel very privileged it's probably because they haven't climbed a mountain yet.
Do note that if you're not White you don't get any White Privilege for climbing a mountain, so don't bother trying.
To get away from naggers
Puny Dutchman, we piss on your lowlands from our lofty sky castles.
shhhhh nobody tell the swarthoid
>It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
wrong, castles did get attacked all the time, that's why they built them in the first place. Terrain helps with that.
>retards building castles for the expressed purpose of them getting attacked
Getting attacked is quite literally their purpose
Going around castles is an option nearly everywhere, but also near enough no where
Having that shit at your rear, especially overlooking your supply lines is a big no
>Climb tree
>Jump into tower window
I have now defeated your gay castle by the power of having onve been 12 years old.
I doubt your fat ass could do all that.
>tower garrison catches you the second you get in
>anyone else trying to get in is going to land on a spear
Was getting caught part of your plan?
Damn that's one of the coziest castles I've seen
Honestly, how the fuck does this not just tumble away?
Because it’s built into the bedrock and concreted as well. You might as well be asking why mountains don’t fall over. Well built castles like that are 300-400 years old and standing up better than anything built since then.
>why is
Every thread that starts with these magical words is 100% guaranteed to be fucking retarded.
Tell me OP, why do YOU think it be like it is? Next time you want to ask /k/ a question, have a nice day instead!
Also learn to google, it can and will answer most of your asinine questions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
It's a fallacy that uses a question to state a fact. Like, "Why is the moon made of cheese?". It's not. Everyone knows it's not, and if you make a thread leading with that, you get more replies than you would if your title was, "The Moon is Cheese".
I know, and I hate it. Also,
please stop spoonfeeding the baby
And every OP that uses it should be pruned across all boards, because it's either a bot or a fucking retard.
cry some more 🙂
na, make decent OPs or fuck off.
go be picky somewhere else
What? If a castle is there, it means there is a place to resupply and for counter-attacks to be launched from. Imagine just avoiding a castle and they keep sallying forth to fuck your supply lines as you attack other places you consider worth attacking. All the while they sit comfortable in the castle you're not attacking.
>b-b-but food
And? They raid YOUR shit for supplies.
Building a castle in a mountain is literally castle building 101 and it is why places that have been historically mountainous have been a real fucking pain to take.
WRONG!
They build the mountain under the castle! They excavated all the land away so the castle would be the highest point.
>castle on a mountain
>enemy goes around it
pretty retarded tbh, castles were mostly so Nobles could flex on poor 24/7 working peasants
>sappers
Building castles is a massive investment and sappers even once undermining even one section of wall structurally compromising it is a galactic pain the assfucked ass. Big steep ass mountains make it impractical while probably putting you out of range of siege artillery most of the time.
>Why build a castle on top of a mountain? It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
Masada?
Yes. An eternal monument to just how pissed off a really pissed off roman could be.
In terms of ridiculous fucking feats of wartime engineering I personally prefer the story of how Alexander the Great captured an island city by literally turning it into a peninsula so he could get siege towers within range of the walls.
Masada is definitely up there though. You've got to be a special kind of pain in the ass to get that kind of response from the Romans.
>building your fortress on top of a mountain
Broke.
>building your fortress on top of a lava dome
Woke.
Supply is king of the battlefield.
If some retards from a mountain top keep taking your supplies then your huge invincible army has two options
>starve
>deal with the problem
>It's not like anyone is gonna try attacking anyway
id rather not take the risk
Medieval castles purpose was for a lord to:
A) intimidate the local peasants
B) a base to project power from
C) a safe place to hideout if need be
D) control roads/access points
E) a place for troops to be stationed to secure a region
Castle building wasnt just ad hoc it was a planned and tightly controlled ordeal. We know lords often build illegal castles and would end up in courts or even in battle with their leige over it. Thats why up to about 1500ish castles were purely defensive and pretty spartan to live in. It's only later remodels that they became more luxurious as hideaways from the local bumpkins.
Not when you pack the castle with AA.
You get a nice view.
Overrated.
They are vulnerable to canons. That is why we don't build them anymore.
Modern towers with underground floors, lifted ground around it with walls on exterior, are better protected then that.
Basically every castle started out like this:
>hermit builds a secluded house and hoards resources
>gets robbed
>reinforces house
>gets robbed again but not as badly
>now other people start living around him because it's safer
And 300 years later you have your castle. The thing to realize is that those classic medieval castles weren't so much built as they evolved over centuries.
we don't build them anymore because now we have bunkers, last relevant fortification was the star forts.
>because now we have bunkers
>last relevant fortification was the star forts
And the bunkers are just wine cellars, right.
>t Bing desktop Wallpaper user
Isn't this one of those fake romantic castles anyway? It doesn't look like a real medieval fortification.
You Americans can laugh at Europeans when talking about guns, but we get to laugh at you when you try to talk about castles.
Looks like it. It's probably built on top of the ruins of a real one.