Current Events > i love visiting fortresses and palaces

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I like to run simulation in my head that if i were a tactician trying to conquer the place, what would i do.

Like i visited thailand grand palace today, and i thought of strategies of storming and take over the palace with my imaginary army. I surveyed which place is least populated, what are the point of entries, which cracks in the walls that would make it easier to besiege, or if the wall is approximately scalable or not.

Anyway since the palace itself is probably rennovated countless times, it is more a symbol now than a fort. It is pretty much not hard to break trough.


I think i play too much videogames
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Forts don't really have the same purpose in modern warfare. The advent of missiles rendered them useless. Hell, when gunpowder weapons started to be innovated, fortress design could barely keep up. Sieges really trailed off towards the end of the 18th century or so. By the time we got artillery, walls didn't really mean jack squat. Instead, supply lines and bases of operation became far more favored over fortresses.

Generally speaking, though, fortresses were usually weakest at the obvious points, like doors and gates. Towers and walls could make it difficult with a primitive army, but that's why most sieges didn't end with assaults. A siege is literally the opposite of what you described.

Nowadays you just fly a drone over the walls and kill everyone without losing a single soldier.