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Originally Posted by shawnhcorey
It would all come down to cost. If a castle was cheaper to build than the cost of an assault force, the castles would be built. Creating and training even a small dragon force could be very expensive.
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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.