Scott Ruggels Posted July 28, 2022 Report Share Posted July 28, 2022 A French project to build a Castle from scratch, has been proceeding now for 25 years. They estimate they have about 10 years to go for completion. Their concept was to start in 1229, and proceed year by year. They also estimate that it would have taken less time to have done it in the 1200s. Steve and Christopher R Taylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted July 29, 2022 Report Share Posted July 29, 2022 Yeah, when you can conscript your peasants for labor, that definitely picks up the pace. Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted July 29, 2022 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2022 8 hours ago, Lord Liaden said: Yeah, when you can conscript your peasants for labor, that definitely picks up the pace. It would have to be general labor, as the smiths, the masons, and carpenters are skilled trades and would have to be paid to leave the business in the larger towns and cities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted July 29, 2022 Report Share Posted July 29, 2022 Yeah the problem with using slave labor is that its almost never skilled labor. you can get slaves to move blocks from point A to point B but you need an expert to get the blocks cut and move them in order, without damaging any, and then experts to get them put in place correctly, etc. Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted July 29, 2022 Report Share Posted July 29, 2022 2 hours ago, Scott Ruggels said: It would have to be general labor, as the smiths, the masons, and carpenters are skilled trades and would have to be paid to leave the business in the larger towns and cities. I imagine they could be conscripted too by more tyrannical types, but it isn’t a good idea. Such experts could secretly build in flaws intended to make it easier to take the structure down, kind of like what happened with the Death Star according to the plotline of Rogue One. Scott Ruggels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 1, 2022 Report Share Posted August 1, 2022 A castle where, if you hit it with an arrow in a difficult-to-access drainage port, the entire castle explodes? I'd watch that. Steve, drunkonduty and tkdguy 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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