Top tier fortifications

You will not be disappoint.

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Stellar forts>medieval castles.

Great thread.

That still there, d'ythink?

It is, a bit damaged of course. Pretty amazing if you consider the fact that it's been in use as a functional fortress from the pre-gunpowder era till the post-nuclear era.

What do you mean? That one's functionally better than the other? Or aesthetically? Because regarding the former: that makes no sense because they were built with completely different defense strategies in mind, from different times. And the latter: star forts are beautiful, but on the other hand a mountain peak castle has it's own charm as well.

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Aesthetical. I guess my problem is that star forts don't need a beautiful scenario, and most castles aren't bad but don't really have a BEAUTIFUL mountain under them

For example i like this:

Although I don't fully agree with it, your argument makes sense.

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Contributing

Well that's a first, thanks

Nigga that shit is fabolous. Sintra is the Jojo of castles.

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Any lurkers left?

10/10 would rain death down on enemies.

It's amazing that the giant pile of sand to the right, built by the besieging romans, is still there

I'm lurking. Not much use for me since nothing modern, but the history major in me loves it.

I took this pic a couple of years ago, with the idea of capturing the sheer size of the walls compared to a touring car.

Connaisseur.

Glad you like it anyway.

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>mfw Prince of Persia didn't exaggerate anything

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Yep.

This pic is a detail of this fortress:
Just have a close look at the walls and gates and imagine the fucking scale of that fortress. Btw, to get to the top of that mountain, you have to enter through a tiny gate, navigate through a pitch black labyrinth like tunnel with trap doors, gates, booby traps, underneath metal grills with fire and everything. Pretty neat.

This plays on some ideas that came out of the unfortunate modern fantasy thread a while back.

I'm trying to imagine in my mind a city as massive as newyork with a massive wall around it with whole towns built along it.

This pic is another good example of relative scale

This pic is the same fortress as this one:
But then from a different angle.

Not what you mean, but impressive nonetheless.

Wait, wait. If you like truly massive walls, check this out:
youtu.be/F8bJBnqLaz0

It's not a big fort but it was never brecached

The Forbidden City was in some ways bigger than I expected and in some ways smaller. Lots of open space in the courtyards certainly helped play up the scale. Everywhere else where the craftsmen and workers would have lived were very small. Height wise wasn't so bad, think I only hit my head twice.

Walking back around the outside it seemed a bit smaller. Wait, that might have been because we didn't finish going all the way back to Tienanmen square. I think my mother got tired of walking and called for a cab.

Construction overall was top notch. They've done a good job of maintaining it, though you could tell in the more out of the way areas that everything was just plain old from how worn it was.
Would recommend visiting it for anyone who has the chance to do so.

I'm convinced this is a sandcastle someone shopped plants onto.

Yes, lurking.

Thanks for your contribution. I've visited lots of fortifications, but the Forbidden City is still on my list.

A couple more for you then.

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This is really making me want to go and visit a load of these places

Krak's a classic. It's deceptively massive. This pic illustrates the size of the walls.

I knew it was big, but not that big.

Yeah it's huge - and, fortunately, it's built to last, though there's definitely been some damage done.

I'd love to go, if it's still there when the fighting dies down

Nice thread, I do like some polyorcetique.

The most develloped example of modern fortifications would be the swiss network, I think.
Sadly for pictures, such works tend to be underground and/or camouflaged.
Here's an example. One of the blockhaus is camouflaged as a house, the other as a bunch of pines.

I know. Imagine storming that thing with a ladder, good luck.

Me too. On the one hand it's such a pity that Krak and Aleppo's citadel are being damaged, but on the other hand it's interesting to see how good these structures resist 21st century weaponry.

Detail.

How modern is modern?

WWII is about as late as fortifications get, unless you want Cheyenne Mountain or HESCO bastions

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>it's interesting to see how good these structures resist 21st century weaponry.
Yeah - they're not great for power projection any more, but they're helped by the fact that you don't really get people equipping their forces to beat castles any more

Pic related for fortifications that are impractical to destroy, but can't really do much - the WWII german flak towers

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Ah, flak towers. Excellent contribution, considering their almost medieval appearance.

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