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Post by rexdacorum on Feb 20, 2007 8:54:13 GMT
What kind of siege engins did the Inca`s used ? They did not know how to make wheel (so now towers, rams), so i guess only ladders and sapping points...
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Post by Filibusteria on Feb 20, 2007 15:38:02 GMT
for rams, we could make a pointy piece of tree being carried by hand by 6-8 men...
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Post by Roman_Man#3 on Feb 21, 2007 0:35:07 GMT
do we want 512 or 1024 megabytes of ram?
(oh, bad computer joke)
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Post by caiusf on Feb 21, 2007 2:08:54 GMT
Lol
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Post by Rah'Majashan on Feb 21, 2007 17:36:40 GMT
How advanced do you think the walls of the cities should be? Because I can't recall a single Pre-Columbian city that had anything more than a wooden stockade. So a large pointy stick would work just fine I suppose.
The problem with seiges in the Inca world is, its not something they really ever had to concern themselves with. I suppose they could build ladders and they had the engineering knowledge to sap. But, units such as catapults, trebuchets, and spear flingers (cant remember the name at the moment) would not exist.
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Post by rexdacorum on Feb 21, 2007 20:04:04 GMT
Actually they where cities having HUGE walls... and they where strong walls, some even more stronger than those found in Europe at that time. I just remember the inca fortress of Sacsahuaman... it was made out of gigantic stone blocks (some of them having more than 10 000 kg), impenetrable by any means...
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Post by Rah'Majashan on Feb 21, 2007 21:54:29 GMT
Huh, shows you what I know. I've read several books on the topic and know that they had the ability to build great walls, but don't recall seeing walls surrounding the cities. Thanks for clearing me up.
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Post by rexdacorum on Feb 22, 2007 8:45:57 GMT
Hmm, at least the Chimu town of Chan-Chan was sorrounded by big walls... Anyway, not all the factions will be able to build walls.... only a few of them. Most of them will have, as you said, just the simplest wooden stockade as a defence. I suggest not using walls larger than the first level of stone wall available in vannila RTW: Epic stone walls and large stone walls would be innacurate. But i think even the stone walls can be taken with ladders.... ladders will be used for stone walls, while for the wooden ones rams will be used.
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Post by Murfios on Feb 23, 2007 2:14:21 GMT
Is it posible to make a model featuring men carryng a ram?
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