Re: (TFT) simple castle defences

[ed <edhogg@equus.demon.co.uk>]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 07:51:53 +1000, "Cas and Lisa (also Silvia, Max &
Viveka) Liber" <casliber@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>Did someone already think of this?
>A castle's walls have numerous hollow cavities which contain sensitive
>exploding gems of great power (8 dice or so) suspended between glass pincers
>(so they don't shake in an earthquake). When the wall is broken, the gem
>falls and explodes.
>
>Now the rulers are only too happy to let the rumours of these cavities
>spread to deter tunnelers.....

Of course when the big rocks hit the walls from the beseiging trebuchets
the glass pincers shatter and a readymade breach is created in the
castle walls

ed
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