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SilfenQuarn
We'll hide here until we can surrender.
MattyRain
Note to self: remember where the best castles are when the zombie apocalypse comes.
Pulger
Not bad. Throw in the woodlands for free and I'll take it.
RWebb00000
wonder what this would cost to build today.
RMaybeth
where did they get the water for the moat?
eggmuffin
No water needed.
derekjohn
If a house is a 'machine for living in' (machine-a-habiter), a fortress is a machine for killing.
derekjohn
Une belle machine-a-tuer.
VeryBritishTeaParty0
@NoOnesUniverse
Jubilara
More staff like these...
thetruk
When you need to keep a motherfucker outside
AvsFreak
7.5/10 not enough gas grenades.
GreenzoSchwimer
Give me 10 good men and I’ll impregnate the bitch.
enyalius4692
These are the types of things i wish i could do in Total War. I want to lay siege to historically perfect castles and fortresses.
Daggaroth
This would be an excellent FPS map
TheInitiated
I'll have two, please.
DoctorWhoots420
Cool! I wonder if any battles happened there
shooflypie
This is the most castley castle I've ever seen.
PeterBartonfromSotonUK
Great photos. Thanks for sharing.
forgotmyokdpasswordsohereweare
Yeah that's my house
ThatGuyWithThe3DS
Castle scenery porn. I can dig it.
JasonForge
CAMP IMGUR 2017!!!
AndIThinkToMyselfWhatAWonderfulWorld
This time with affordable flights for the Europeans!
MyEndWillNotBeOnEarth
That is such a great idea!
ThatsPermanent
Giant Paintball battle, anyone?
wowbaggertheinfinate
Isnt this a warthunder map?
YesterEve
Zombies? Zombies.
CatilioPlaceresCannabicos
Give me 25 ninjas and I'll take this shit by midnight
EvilDeadTed
Fun Fact: The most common way Ninjas infiltrated enemy castles was to get hired on as servants.
pipicacaboudin
C'est vauban qui l'a faite?
azertyxtra
c'est moyenâgeux...vauban est bien plus recent
pipicacaboudin
Yes je suis allé voir. C'est bien avant vauban. Mais il a quand même fait qques modifs ^^
realmdweller
That looks like a nightmare to siege.
sunyudai
seige is easy. It's a nightmare to storm.
enyalius4692
Agreed. These are the types of things i wish i could do in Total War. I want historically perfect castles and fortresses.
TrueLegateDamar
That was the general idea behind it's design
DanimalJones
What Era is this from?
imophalblue
16th century http://www.forteresse-salses.fr/en/
DanimalJones
Merci
TAKESHIKOVACHS
Problem is that while a indenture moat works well against mass troop movement. It's absolutely fucked for siege warfare. --->
MichelGoussu
Well, it's still standing, as Elton John, while you are seated and commenting on imgur. (obviously I'm french, defneding my forteresse).
eggmuffin
"Indenture moat"? What's that?
TAKESHIKOVACHS
With that set up an enemy's trebuchet/catapults etc would have an much easier time lobbing rocks and diseased carcasses over your walls
TheHumanCentipad
Well so walls are also useless. As are fortresses by that logic.
eggmuffin
This looks like 15th-16th century design.
soso456
that's like saying ballistic vests are useless against claymore. What's the point?
copperhead
This is designed to defeat gunpowder artillery. The glacis and ditch stop the inner wall from being battered down. 1
copperhead
The inner wall is defended from the corner bastions. This is an early star fort, not a crappy medival castle.
CirB
A great demonstration that there is a difference between a castle and a fortress.
steveracer
I didn't even know they had an Oriental Sales department in France!
Diddykongkey
Castle and palace, right? I guess a fortress would just be a military building not intended to be kings quarters.
doctorbees
Yeah I think that's what they meant. Castles were definitely built with battle in mind. Palaces, not so much.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I think the difference is that castles are some rich dude's private fortified home, while fortresses are public (like they belong to the /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
city, and the local fighting forces use them for the city's defense). So this could be either a castle or a fortress, depending on usage. /2
pinkertonhasanewkitten
That was definitely a military fortress. Been there. Visited it. Genius architecture and defence against the baddies!
doctorbees
Weren't castles originally built as defensible fortresses?
fastlanefreddy
Castles WERE originally built as defensible fortresses. Later on, after the cannon ball, palaces were then commonly referred to as castles
fastlanefreddy
After the development of canon balls, gun powder and guns, castles and plate armor were of little protection.
umicharich
They are only models. (Shh)
clawthewolf
A castle is supposed to be the fortified residence of the local lord. A Fortress is a fortified location
clawthewolf
All castles are fortresses, not all fortresses are castles
doctorbees
Squares and rectangles, got it.
clawthewolf
Pretty much
Sauroctonus
Although there are some buildings that are named "___ Castle", but they're just castle-styled mansions.
thegarlicawakens
Castle Aargh