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Old 04-29-2019, 01:58 PM   #3590
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Originally Posted by GloucesterChief View Post
They actually would. First the walls were way too short, should of been at least 30 feet tall and probably taller than that. The walls would of been plastered smooth to prevent climbing. In addition things like boiling oil or lighted pitch would be close to dump on anybody climbing or right at the walls. There are also many other design flaws of winterfell as depicted in the show.

Castles were seriously designed fortifications designed to kill anybody foolish enough to assault them head on.

I literally asked my wife "where's the boiling pitch"? It's so damn standard.

But maybe the though was that they used all the combustibles in the fiery moat?

The 30 foot walls I can easily get over. Be mindful that the North is nowhere near as well populated as the other regions of Westeros. The Starks could legitimately have felt, for a wide variety of reasons, that a massive fortification was unnecessary -- or they were not wealthy enough to construct one.
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