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Old 10-09-2016, 10:42 PM   #12
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Default Re: Tech Level for a Fantasy Setting

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
It's not that simple. The official starting point of TL4 is 1450. People stopped building castles, as such, toward the end of the 1500s. And only because the threat became armies with increasingly heavy gunpowder artillery. Castles would be perfectly practical defenses against, say, zombie legions, or giant monsters,
For the matter of that there are historical occasions of castles putting up a good fight as late as World War II. Those would be where the artillery hadn't caught up with the forward elements of course.
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