Well it is probably not that easy for the bad guys to climb the wall when
there are the good guys at the top of the wall. But you are right that most
of the epic literature suggests smooth surfaces. OTOH those medieval walls I
saw jet has not been that smooth. Might have been the time which carved its
signs in the wall. But it's not that easy to build and maintain that smooth
walls, is it?

But the longer I think about those walls, the more I think there has to be
another way to build them. How to make regular irregularity? :-)

Marc-Hendrik

ryan constantine schrieb in Nachricht <39CFF2D7.D6403E1C@yahoo.com>...
>the problem with this is that outer wall surfaces should be pretty
>smooth.  at least to the point where average joe wouldn't be able to
>scale it unaided.  you'd be surprised how small a handhold/foothold
>needs to be in order to scale something.  i would guess that rock should
>stick out less than a centimeter from the mortar.  this would also make
>it difficult for ice or snow to "lay" on it.  ice may very well be on
>the wall, but more the clear kind, not the white kind, and it would sort
>of look like thin frozen waterfalls all over the wall.  i hope that
>imagery makes sense. oh, one last thing, the gaps between the stones
>shouldn't be that noticable from that distance.  we should see the many
>stones the wall is made of, just not the gaps.

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