Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 12/04/2012 9:36 PM, Alain wrote:

>
> >> The first is the amount of land area enclosed by the city wall and the
> >> small bit
> >> that is occupied by the town.  Is it your intent to fill in this with
> >> more
> >> structures?  The entire town population would be needed to man just
> >> the towers
> >> on this wall.
> > The wall have a big disuasive effect, especialy if most of the time you
> > only need to wory about some unorganised raiders.
> > It also secure fields from poachers and wild animals.
>
> Well the walls could be used like the Roman walls were in Britannia.
> They were used to keep the conquered peoples of the south from escaping
> to the free north.
>
> --
> Regards
>      Stephen

Actually, the walls in Britannia were used to keep the "barbarians" from the
north out of the Roman occupied south.  The walls were continuously manned in a
very specific fashion.  The man-power required for this effort is actually quite
impressive.  Along with the wall, there are forts every so often along the
entire length of the wall.  Men manning the wall were housed in these forts
along with units that could move out to intercept any invading forces spotted
along the length of the wall.

Robert.

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