Okay, so this is a tiny lecture on Imperial Roman structures. This chapter will be all about the Roman walls.

So as a lot of us know, Romans conquered several lands that soon enough, they had a ton of cities. They needed a way to defend a city without giving it too many soldiers but not too little that the city will fall. Which is why they built the walls.

"Oh but the walls can be taken down easily!"

Wrong. The Romans had some... add-ons.

Here's an image of one of the outer walls of the city leading to a gate.


Let's go in, shall we?



This is a rather big space for a gate. Hmmm... We should probs look up.



Huh, what's that? Well, that little section is actually right between two gates. Roman soldiers close the inner gate first, before the outer gate, trapping their enemies in between the two gates. So what's that little hole? Roman soldiers on top of the wall would pour things through that gap. What things? Oh, y'know, hot oil, tar, rocks, other painful stuff.

Let's go around and check out another portion of the outside.



"What is that? A balcony? With no floor? What's the point?"

The thing is, invaders would obviously try to scale a wall. So, like the gap between the gates, Roman soldiers would pour stuff through that to dissuade anyone from climbing.
Do you also see those little bits with spaces between them? Roman archers would position themselves there and fire at enemies. Of course, the enemies aren't dumb enough to go charging at a wall without their own archers but given that the Romans are way up there, they'd have to account for the height and shooting from bottom to up isn't as easy as the movies make it appear to be.

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And that is all for today. Hopefully we'll be done fixing the info about the weapons. That's what's coming up next (most probs). Now, I'm going to bed.

Notes

Credits to Fenrir_Glacies for sending us pictures. The pictures were taken by her. If you want to see the wall featured here for yourselves, it's in Seville, Spain. Now before you say "But that's in Spain! How can that be Roman?!" Here's the thing, Spain was conquered by Rome. Romans built that wall. Any other questions?