• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    It still blows my mind that for a large part of human history wars were literally just two giant armies marching towards each other.

    Or that castle sieges were much more boring than made to seem and would last months

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      10 months ago

      Or that castle sieges were much more boring than made to seem and would last months

      Huh, what media are you talking about? Might just be the generes I enjoy but I’ve never seen anything suggest that castle sieges didn’t last ages. Wouldn’t that kinda go against the point of a siege?

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        10 months ago

        Maybe it’s got to do with a confusion of language. Not every attack on a fortified structure is a siege. Like the battles at Helm’s Deep or Minas Tirith in Lord of the Rings could be confused with a siege because they are battles around forts and cities. But the intention was to destroy these places, not make the inhabitants surrender.