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Old 10-11-2016, 01:45 AM   #32
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Default Re: Tech Level for a Fantasy Setting

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
My major fantasy castles have always had arbalest turrets and archers on the walkways as precautions against aerial assault, and a guarded underground complex so as not to be taken off guard by sappers and to give the inhabitants a place to retreat from overwhelming surface assaults. Many "dungeons" were the intact subterranean component of a destroyed fortification.
Magic may also make them smaller for a given population, which will make defending them easier
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