Illustrations of history

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Process of undermining a castle's walls illustrated (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You sort of need to know when the wall collapses. If it collapses too early, you can't press your advantage, and if it collapses too late, then your troops will be under enemy fire for quite some time while they wait for the wall to collapse.