They just sort of mash into each other, like, no regard for anything. They just do this, all these movies, they just sort of charge into each other, like horses' lancers. I mean, four out of 10, five out of 10.Īlso, how would they have done this without the English noticing that there was a field of oil or something on the ground? Like, they wouldn't have been like, "Oh, that's probably there for no reason. On the other hand, it certainly hits a number of points where you're like, well, this is realistic, using sort of layered initiative in order to overcome the defenses. I mean, it is still a fantasy, and they're doing many things wrong. That makes it conceivable that this could have worked. So you see them sort of wavering and breaking just before the charge hits, which is exactly the point. So the idea is that he creates those openings that the horses need to see in order to push their charge. But if we take that out of the equation, I always thought it was validated by the fact that he uses the light of the sun to blind the orcs, which means they lower their pikes at the last moment. But these horses would just slide to their deaths, unfortunately.
Well, firstly, that hill is much too steep, so everybody would die. That's why a lot of the tactics that they show you are actually too simple, and they're missing a lot of the points that would actually be used. In movies, they never do this because that would slow things down.
All that time, they're right under your walls. They would have to fill up the ditch first, before they can get to you. If they want to bring siege towers or battering rams, they fall into the ditch. Suddenly the wall they're facing is much higher. And now what do you have? The enemy wants to approach you from the front. Whereas in reality, I mean, one of the most common forms of fortification is, very simply, if you have the ground like this, you dig a ditch, and you pile up the sand behind it, then you build your wall on top of that. It's like they're trying to make it possible for this place to fall. If they want to bring siege engines, if they want to bring catapults or rams or towers up to the walls, they can just do that. If they want to go right up to the wall, they can just do that. So, I mean, the problem when you see these kind of siege scenes in movies, that they always seem to make it really easy for the attacker. I mean, you can go to the British Museum right now and see depictions of people assaulting walls with ladders. But obviously it is a very common tactic. If you expect it to be defended, it puts you in such a position of vulnerability, approaching the walls one at a time, and that's just not going to go well.
You just put a lot of ladders against the walls, swarm up, take the place. If you believe they don't have either the courage or the strength to resist you, then you might try this. Obviously, attacking walls with ladders is just a really, really risky proposition. And so of course you would still use it, even against people wearing plate armor, because even the feel of arrows sort of pinging off your armor or falling around you is going to make you much more cautious and hesitant. Plate armor is intended to keep arrows out. And these are really heavy bows, so it's exhausting and pointless. If the old man's in range, why isn't everybody shooting? They're making all these people on the walls hold their arrow for a really long time.
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