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Latest revision as of 11:01, 9 April 2025
Castles, Fortresses and other fortifications are used to defend important areas, settlements and provide a strong base for the military.[1]
Watchtowers are small fortified buildings that are garrisoned to ensure advance warning against potential threats.[2]
Constructions
They are made from a wide variety of materials from iron to sun baked cow dung. Most have at least some elements in common such as palisades, ramparts, walls and towers.[1]
Features
- Arrow Slits: These provide missile armed troops the ability to fire at the enemy in relative safety.[1]
- Gates: They vary greatly but are normally wide and tall enough to allow a cart or wagon within the fortification. Well protected gates will include a portcullis that can limit access and allow archers to fire through it at the enemy.[1]
Materials
- Metal: Most such structures are found in the Chaos Wastes as without powerful magic they are extremely difficult to create.[1]
- Stone: A tough but heavy material favoured for fortifications, it requires considerable time, effort and money to create.[1]
- Straw: Easily woven together they can made quite thick walls which can resist arrows, bolts and even war machines. They remain extremely vulnerable to fire however.[1]
- Wattle and Daub: Hay or straw which is mixed with (often smelly) mud and then made into blocks or spread over a framework. Large, cheap fortifications can be created but they stink especially on hot days and like straw are vulnerable to fire.[1]
- Wood: Sharpened stakes thrust into the ground are often used to form a stockade but remain vulnerable to fire.[1]
Notable
- Arjijil
- Black Fortress
- Blood Keep
- Castle Drachenfels
- Castle Reikguard
- Castle Wittgenstein
- Doom Gate
- Drakenhof Castle
- Fortress of Dawn
- Fortress of Vorag
- Great Bastion
- Monte Castello
- Nagashizzar
- Talshunar
- Tower of Ashshair
- Watch Towers of Naggaroth
- The five High Elf gates of Annulii mountains:
Gallery
Castle Salzenmund
High Elf Castle
Bretonnian Castle
Skaven Fort
Miniatures
Sources
- 1: The Citadel Journal 4: Siege, pg. 4-5
- 2: Warhammer: The Old World Rulebook: The Lonely Tower, pg. 298
