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To: bimboeruption

Interesting, I was having similar thoughts, though not nearly as elaborate. At first glance, my only quibble is that there should be angled bastions instead of round towers for better visibility.

I don’t know of any city that has ever withstood a prolonged siege, but I can’t stress enough the importance of uninterruptable energy, water, and food supplies.

Another lesson to take from castle design is the concept of bottlenecks and layered defenses. In the event that the outer perimeter is breached (say by marauding Marxists), progress to the inner perimeter is only via bottlenecks that are subject to attack from all directions.


37 posted on 01/12/2013 5:39:36 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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To: Windcatcher

It may be just a meager suggestion but if there is open country a form of a modern day Maginot line “could” work.

Underground bunkers with pop up cylinders with chain guns, remote controlled.

Or several hundred ATVs also remote controlled, each with several auto firing shotguns, like a quad 12 ga saiga drum mounts, and lastly have an explosive clamore so when empty can be driven into a line of attackers.

For a defense against tanks it gets much more problematic unless there was in place concealed tank traps or sand pits with aeration that sends a massive amount of air into a sand ditch that no tank can drive over, it sinks.

When a hovercraft is deployed again having devices in play that can tear the skirts up “might” work.

And then you have to be concerned about HALO jumpers at night.


52 posted on 01/12/2013 5:57:33 PM PST by Eye of Unk (AR2 2013 is the American Revolution part 2 of 2013)
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To: Windcatcher
there should be angled bastions instead of round towers for better visibility. I don’t know of any city that has ever withstood a prolonged siege, but I can’t stress enough the importance of uninterruptable energy, water, and food...

Don't be stupid. The whole f*ing establishment would be obliterated in one air strike.

You idiots have been playing too many video games.

100 posted on 01/12/2013 9:00:22 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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