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What are you talking about? I didn’t drop it. I am just extremely busy and can’t find the time to invest into this.

Of course it is dangerous, however, this was a legitimate Ottoman siege tactic and was used in combination with minning.

I just stopped using it all together nowadays

I added the sentences that was supposed the come there. You see, I sometimes delete or change parts of the text while writing it, and since I am busy with my normal work I sometimes have to just leave the deleted parts as it is and leave for work. Then I forget about those parts. I’d appreciate it if you could point out those absurd stops when you see them.

Not necessarily. Such occurances were extremely rare. What would actually happen was pillaging and looting, because the momentum of an army was nigh unstoppable. You have more room to negortiate during sieges, but again, not necessary if you have the strength to overwhelm the enemy.

Meaningless as in he couldn’t truly fix the root problem. It is like cutting the branches off a death tree and calling it a day instead of removing it. How much did it help in the grand scheme of things?

This is extremely inaccurate historically, otherwise, armies would've equipped themselves with swords as primary weapons and not spears. Spear has a better reach, which is the sole reason why you can't "get close" in the first place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afqhBODc_8U here you can pretty much see why spear has historically reigned supreme and why the idea of swords superiority and dominance as the primary weapon is flawed and inaccurate.

This is the image I had on my mind when I thought of the castle in this chapter. This is the Foix castle in France

Euboea is on the right and Thermopylae is somewhere near the red line under "Epicnemidian Locris".