[HN Gopher] Fortification, Part I: The Besieger's Playbook
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       Fortification, Part I: The Besieger's Playbook
        
       Author : littlestymaar
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2021-11-03 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | User23 wrote:
       | I've come to view the famous Roman Legions, at least at their
       | height, as a very well organized construction crew that would
       | occasionally fight.
        
       | bee_rider wrote:
       | Not really the typical fare here, but it was interesting how
       | different the actual challenges were from the sort of general
       | fiction/fantasy inspired stuff I'm familiar with. The combined
       | siege tower/battering ram/archer firing platform described seems
       | like a really cool setpiece, I'm surprised it hasn't shown up
       | more often in fiction.
        
         | jcranmer wrote:
         | > Not really the typical fare here
         | 
         | I've gotten pretty used to seeing the weekly acoup.blog post
         | show up on HN over the weekend. It's actually probably one of
         | the most reliable bloggers in terms of having their blog posts
         | make it to HN front page.
        
           | littlestymaar wrote:
           | Yes, there's really a _ton_ of submissions [1]. It looks like
           | the author 's prose and topics really resonated with the HN
           | crowd.
           | 
           | [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=fals
           | e&qu...
        
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