Watching in 2019, I really was expecting "MACHICOLATIOOOOONNNNSSSSS" when it came to light, but you haven't invented it yet. love your videos man, cheers!
@davidclegg7874
4 жыл бұрын
It was such a relief to hear the word said normally...
@marvinmoller8556
4 жыл бұрын
2020, still expected it :D
@athanh219
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidclegg7874 it was a sad time, before MACHICOLATIOOOOOOOOONNNNNSSS!!!
@thunderusnight
4 жыл бұрын
It was quite disappointing
@ayeansh
3 жыл бұрын
2021 and i expected the same
@schweinehund3497
8 жыл бұрын
That part about the Don Jon is interesting as fuck. Now I know where the cliché of the princess trapped in a tower comes from.
@chriskallio1980
8 жыл бұрын
Same here. Pretty cool.
@daddyleon
8 жыл бұрын
I could not agree more!
@KarstenOkk
8 жыл бұрын
+John Saf Which is still a tower.
@KarstenOkk
8 жыл бұрын
John Saf Totem pro parte, tower = the highest part of the tower in this case.
@junichiroyamashita
7 жыл бұрын
or where the sufferings of Chateaubriand comes from
@DatsWhatXiSaid
6 жыл бұрын
Takes a shot everytime Shad says "castle." 5 minutes later *dies*
@thibomeurkens2296
4 жыл бұрын
That's What Xi Said how did you make the word “dies” smaller?
@DatsWhatXiSaid
4 жыл бұрын
@@thibomeurkens2296 @Thibo Meurkens I don't see it as smaller, but as bold. But anyway, I added a * before and after the word, so * word * with no spaces = *word*
@thibomeurkens2296
4 жыл бұрын
@@DatsWhatXiSaid yeah i found that out to. I think its a thing with my ipad
@communistcomrade404
3 жыл бұрын
That would be if you drank vodka instead of milk as a baby cause a normal person would die sooner
@Likexner
3 жыл бұрын
Wrong choice of drug.
@supertapis7357
8 жыл бұрын
Very good and informative video. However, there's a mistake concerning the use of murder holes. Indeed :, "boiling hot oil", even if it is a common place in popular culture wasn't used to kill opponents. It was way too expensive and would only be used in such a case in extremely desperate cases. Middle Age people were just as intelligent and thrifty as we are and would rather use boiling hot water or sand (which would enter the gaps of an armour and burn the guy inside alive). I felt forced into making this comment in order to break one of the many myths revolving around Middle Age.
@The_Foxymew
8 жыл бұрын
I was going to say the same thing. Oil is 'spensive!
@supertapis7357
8 жыл бұрын
Especially if you have a well and a pot nearby. :)
@The_Foxymew
8 жыл бұрын
Supertapis Boiling water helps plenty!
@shkeni
8 жыл бұрын
I didn't know about the hot sand.. thanks!
@HisMajestyGuigui
8 жыл бұрын
Boiling oil or water was never launched, because it was inefficient : it cool down very quickly. Sand was used to block the movements of late medieval armors. They simply launched stone
@Euduchaus
7 жыл бұрын
Hey guys, who want to play DonJon & Dragons ? It takes place in a era before the invention of dungeons.
@kevinsullivan3448
6 жыл бұрын
So Ice Age AD&D? That is so 1986.
@MultiGERmann
5 жыл бұрын
DonJon vs Dungeons the new Marvel movie
@MoltenMouseMetal
4 жыл бұрын
Machiculations and Manticores.
@iblackfeathers
3 жыл бұрын
that would the prequel series. lol
@fbmerc
8 жыл бұрын
An idea for your castle design video: In general all paths leading UP a castle should be consturcted CLOCKWISE. That way attackers climbing up the stairs can't conveniently use their shields and swords, and the relatively more defensless righthand side of an attacker is facing the defender. Just think where the shield of the attacker is and when placing stairs and such. Greetings from a new German subscriber.
@usernaem4818
8 жыл бұрын
+Merc They did that in castles didn't they?
@gearandalthefirst7027
7 жыл бұрын
And uneven steps
@kieranh2005
7 жыл бұрын
Except for one of the Scottish clans, who were predominantly left handed. Their staircases went the other way. McLeod or possibly Campbell I think. Also, during sieges, some armies assembled small units of left handers whose job it was to take stairwells.
@jakobscharf6803
7 жыл бұрын
wow kieranh2005 but these small units of left handers had a problem because as soon as they were on the highest floor they had walk the stairs back down but counterclockwise Greetings from another German castle maniac ;)
@kieranh2005
7 жыл бұрын
+Jakob Scharf LOL. They just spearheaded the charge... plenty of right handed troops following.
@catneko6855
6 жыл бұрын
*Waiting for him to scream MATICULATIOOOONS*
@irrelevant_noob
5 жыл бұрын
15:50 *Machicolations :-B
@isaacmcgonigle766
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking thee exact same thing 😂
@JohnFourtyTwo
3 жыл бұрын
His accent is so thick, I had no idea what he was saying until they spelled it out.🤣
@thedahakha
8 жыл бұрын
What an excellent, informative video! :D After a long evening of watching this channel I feel like an expert on medieval stuff! Keep up the interesting topics man! :)
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
I will certainly endeavour to do so, and I'm very glad you've been enjoying yourself so much ^_^
@firstwolf1389
8 жыл бұрын
Getting the feeling this could be fun to make in minecraft, at least now I know I need to make crenels high enough to call them merlons. I also completly forgot crenellations. You would not mind if I copy the design in this video for minecraft build?
@firefox5926
7 жыл бұрын
have you thought about up loading these models to the 3d warehouse ... id love to get my hands on them :)
@alfredaugusta
6 жыл бұрын
Roy Wardenaar iÅæÆæ
@georgeernst4348
2 жыл бұрын
@@shadiversity, I know this is an OLD comment I'm replying to. But I think you'd like the ideas I've had for good castle placement around the landscape of Cyrodiil in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Well, I forgot how to spell the M-word, but their absence is slightly annoying when there are beveled ramparts that look perfect for their placement. But there are also some perfect locations for walled townships that I've ran into, before. Like that little island next to Skingrad's County surrounded by the river and joined to the road with two bridges, on the road to Anvil.
@mikak.7272
8 жыл бұрын
2:41 Thats Schloss Lichtenstein in Germany, a beatiful castle. I live near it!
@hjolol
5 жыл бұрын
I love how you say donjon, and i love the fact that you said it about 40 times in the next minute after introducing it
@Ethos_Unset
6 жыл бұрын
People have a tendency to take topics like this and call them "geeky" or whatever adjective they have for it, in the material (non-digital) world. I thank modern Internet for KZitem, because it allows fans, that have exhaustively researched and poured their heart into topics such as this, to find audience members that are not only interested, but fascinated, and truly appreciative of the energy you put into videos such as these. Unlike a pre-prepared lesson plan, or even a docent, your videos carry a certain enthusiasm to them, that shows that you truly love your work.
@cattymajiv
5 ай бұрын
Any long talk has to be preprepared. Have you ever tried giving one? Even though video can be editted, if the person has not prepared pretty extensively, it would be a disaster that editing can't fix. You usually also have to give it two full practise runs right through, from beginning right to the end, to find the rough spots that just don't work, and correct them. You have to do that before the actual presentation, to have it come off this smoothly, even if you are an experienced speaker. Without one practise run at the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM, again, it will be a mess. One can still inject as much enthusiasm as they like into it, and improvise parts of it. They actually should, because without it, as you said, it can become deadly boring without it! Edit: I'm sorry. I only noticed now that your comment is a whole SIX years old! But now that this reply is already posted, I will leave it up, as a perfect example of lack of preparation! LOL! 😉 ✌🏼
@generalbismark7163
7 жыл бұрын
my D&D group will eventually build a fortification at some point most likely a castle. Thank you for the information so i can bombard them with this information.
@EpreTroll
6 жыл бұрын
What was usually on top of castle towers and turrets and shit? Was there just an open staircase or was there a trapdoor of some sort? How do they avoid rain from just pouring in and collecting in it ???
@Father-Fitness
3 жыл бұрын
They could adjust the slope so that the water runs towards drainage cracks. After that, a simple wooden hatch would work.
@siegfried2k4
3 жыл бұрын
@@Father-Fitness Imagine opening the hatch on a heavy monsoon...
@alchemicalalek7535
3 жыл бұрын
I use your videos to build stuff in minecraft, thanks for your help!!
@daenor7807
3 жыл бұрын
@@alchemicalalek7535 Thats... Why I'm here, certified Tolkien fan building a first age noldorin defensive wall (think elf version of great wall of china) and want to know what to call the things, got machicolations and didn't have clue what they were called, its really quite beautiful... If I can remember how I made the towers before my worlds got deleted
@alchemicalalek7535
3 жыл бұрын
@@daenor7807 Thats so cool :O
@emmchen1101
7 жыл бұрын
You're so cute with your "I love castles!" :D Really nice video and channel in general. Just stumbled over it and already spent half a day here :D
@PhilBagels
7 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing another defensive technique - a walled-in corridor leading to the entrance of a castle (or a city wall). The walls would have staggered buttresses on the inside so that when approaching the gate, you had to go in a slight zig-zag path. This was to slow down a charge of horses (or perhaps chariots) - they couldn't just charge the gate at full speed, because they had to keep making slight turns left and right. I remember seeing these in Israel.
@RedSkiesMusic
6 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal video. One small addendum: the section of exterior wall that rises in front of the rampart is called a parapet. Crenelations are then placed into the parapet. Parapets continue to be used for both decorative and practical purposes in Western buildings well into the 21st century (as small barriers on roofs, for example). And corbels have made their way into modern Western architecture with the cornice, a decorative motif which also takes inspiration from an Ancient Greek architectural motif of the same name.
@pantslizard
7 жыл бұрын
Greatest castle terminology video I've ever seen.(and I've seen Many) Bravo sir.
@LuciusDragonwolf
2 жыл бұрын
This guy is obsessed with castles just like me... Good to know there's someone who has brought back our history alive
@WildBillCox13
7 жыл бұрын
A fine basic coverage, full of supplementary material. Thanks for posting.
@Plankensen
8 жыл бұрын
So.....Do you play a lot of Stronghold?
@dutchking7293
7 жыл бұрын
I guess he is more of a minecraft guy :)
@SirNarax
7 жыл бұрын
Which Stronghold? ;3
@Leo.23232
7 жыл бұрын
Has to be crusader, or the first one.
@SirNarax
7 жыл бұрын
I liked all of the ones I played (all of them but Stronghold 3, have not played that). With my favourite being Stronghold 2 ;3
@nikelsad
6 жыл бұрын
"With my favourite being Stronghold 2 ;3". The end of your sentence looks like an enumeration (Stronghold 2, 3) because of your smiley ";3". =)
@holdersteven
6 жыл бұрын
You should be declared to be a National Treasure! Thanks for a dynamite presentation! Lot's great information!
@Caradepato
8 жыл бұрын
Do not forget to add a cistern. Its important.
@b1laxson
8 жыл бұрын
And privy. Though you gotta do your business somewhere there are accounts of castles being lost by building digging up the *cough* outlet.
@Caradepato
8 жыл бұрын
just shit over the wall. in times of war, shit in a bucket and pour it out through a slit or something.
@b1laxson
8 жыл бұрын
Try living in a wall dump site for 20 years... or inheriting your grandpa's wall streak
@Caradepato
8 жыл бұрын
They did. Also, it occasionally rains. But seriously, people used to toss sewage out of their windows in towns and cities, nothing to stop them doing the same in a castle.
@Plankensen
6 жыл бұрын
throwing shit at the enemy, Surely a shitty defense
@graceandjohnstephenson3354
3 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU! I had been looking for a video on "how to make a castle" for my 5 year old and yours was the perfect hit! He now knows all the parts of a castle (thanks from Toronto, Canada).
@princekrazie
6 жыл бұрын
What about both a moat and a hill?
@ARR0WMANC3R
8 жыл бұрын
Wow. That castle model you've made is really spectacular. Great work and I hope we will get a full tour once it's totally finished.
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
+ARR0WMANC3R Absolutely! thanks heaps for liking my model, I'm very proud of it.
@-Honeybee
8 жыл бұрын
I listened to this before bed. I feel my IQ while asleep will be raised.
@christopherhorruitiner1067
8 жыл бұрын
+Sitric Brave IQ raised like a drawbridge; by a wench or counterweight?
@-Honeybee
8 жыл бұрын
Much closer to counterweight. I believe it was done efficiently, however room this information may have taken up.
@BARS113113
6 жыл бұрын
One of the best channels ever! Really interesting and informative! And the greatest thing is that 10-15min and I fell asleep as a child
@AngelaRichter65
Жыл бұрын
I am dedicating my swords and horses book to you because I've used your videos so much for research. Between you and Jean Johnson, I think I have my experts in place.
@Henkz85
5 жыл бұрын
Don Jons & Dragons. A friendly game where you sit in a high tower enjoying the impressive view and occasionally dragons flying by.
@miquando5033
6 жыл бұрын
This is the FIRST video with machicolations! Kudos!
@eldorados_lost_searcher
8 жыл бұрын
Shad, I don't want to tell you your business, but why does the entry path have its left side to the castle walls? Usually you'd want to have the non shield bearing side of the attackers facing the castle, making it easier to turn them into pincushions. Awesome castle design!
@mayhemlok
6 жыл бұрын
Garret LeBuis this castle is built in the country of Sethpaw (Southpaw) - a predominantly left-handed folk. ;)
@kenbiles4582
6 жыл бұрын
The other problem I see, is that the inside of the curtain walls shouldn't have crenellations. If the wall is breached (attackers climbing the walls) you don't want to give them cover, you want to be able to shoot them from the Keep, or inner wall. Something I noticed about Dover Castle, is that the walls aren't straight. They bulge in just a bit. That means you can't see how many men are along the wall you've just climbed. The view along the wall is about 10 meters or so. It gives an attacker some advantage, but that's removed because the entire wall can be viewed from the Keep, or Inner Wall, and defenders on either side can be warned, and attack from both sides.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
@@kenbiles4582 separating stretches of rampart with towers is useful. It means you have to enter a tower and exit it on the other side as you progress along the battlements. Fit stout doors on those entrances and each tower now becomes a castle of its own that attackers who have climbed the wall need to breach. Notice how machicolations completely encircle the tower, allowing it to be defended from all directions.
@databang
7 жыл бұрын
Your enthusiasm of castles is contagious. When I become president of the planet (one day) I will hire you to build my monumental dream castle. 😉
@crazygab50
8 жыл бұрын
you should talk about how one would going about taking a castle
@Nethan2000
8 жыл бұрын
+Grier Belter Sit around it and wait until the defenders run out of food or water. Maybe try to bribe them to surrender the castle. I guess you could try assaulting it, but that's just foolish.
@kingkangiv1615
6 жыл бұрын
Dont know if you read these comments still, but I have to thank you for this video. Im writing a book that will involve several castle in great detail and this, so far, alongside your other castle videos has been the greatest of help to me in that effort. Thank you very much for the education.
@satoau1
6 жыл бұрын
hey shad the base of your walls are wrong. the protrusions at the bottom of the wall, called taluses, shouldn't be there. the point of a castle wall is to be as hard to scale and as easy to defend as possible. with the talus, you'll notice the battlements above no longer look down on where the defender are attacking or undermining the wall, rendering them ineffective. taluses are notably added only in later castles, note *added*. in castles with taluses, the stone used is clearly different from the stone of the walls proper, showing that they were added much later. the were only added reluctantly to shore up walls suffering from foundation movement after hundreds of years, not to enhance defense.
@Eluzian86
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for posting this video!!! I'm working on a book series and was struggling to clearly define the early history of my world, and this video gave me the spark to get my mind rolling on defining my world's history. This video got me studying castle development in detail. And now in my stories I can use the different castle styles to indicate the age of different cities or fortifications based on the design of the fortifications. All of your videos are awesome!!!!
@erlendstang6531
7 жыл бұрын
I thought that bailey/ward was called a courtyard, am I wrong to use that term?
@BarafuAlbino
7 жыл бұрын
Bailey can be between the wall and the keep, while the courtyard is inside the keep.
@erlendstang6531
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for clearing that up for me.
@rosicroix777
8 жыл бұрын
Great program, very concise & explained properly. TY for posting this
@virtualgaming9811
7 жыл бұрын
does anyone know if castles ever had people living in the bailey's? As in, a small village within the walls of the castle
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
That's where you start blurring the lines between a lord's private castle and fortified town.
@virtualgaming9811
3 жыл бұрын
@Markus Nelson I appreciate you’re reply but that comment is 4 years old my guy ✊👍
@barrychuckle5565
3 жыл бұрын
That was actually amazing. Excellent delivery!
@Intrafacial86
6 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of one of the last experimental builds I did in Minecraft years ago. I actually built towers that had machicolations, but they were only accessible on the second-from-top floor. Still, what made them cool was a specific arrangement of stair blocks and slabs that allowed you to look straight down over the edge of the wall without the risk of falling. If I ever get back into Minecraft, I might actually build a proper castle as part of my survival gameplay - complete with Villager serfs, lol.
@carlmitc6947
2 жыл бұрын
I watched this video because i want to build a castle in minecraft lol
@geruner
6 жыл бұрын
Pleasantly surprised having stumbled upon you. I have designed castles for decades. Brilliant. GER
@bdekw
7 жыл бұрын
It's videos like these that make me one satisfied subscriber. Great content Shad!
@dc2008242
7 жыл бұрын
did people ever fall through machicolations? cuz, I think if you were behind the crenelations then you'd be very likely to...
@kevinsullivan3448
6 жыл бұрын
Normally there would be wooden covers that would be removed in time of war. Those you only 'opened' the Machicolation that you needed to use right now, then closed it again to deny your enemy another hole to shoot at you through.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
@@kevinsullivan3448 a shame that none of those wooden covers have survived that I know of. I would make them as decorated shields which could all be mounted on the ramparts to "dress" the castle for special occasions.
@donnapalmeri905
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video,I love castles,and I learned so much from this one video. Looking forward to seeing more videos about castles!!!
@thomasbarrows9455
8 жыл бұрын
This was an excellent description of the terms and defensive purposes of castle physical features. Thank you! If you're interested in the social function of castles, though, check out Charles Coulson's "Castle's in Medieval Society". Coulson challenges (I think convincingly) the notion that castles were primarily defensive in purpose but instead were designed firstly to impose a social structure.
@adorabell4253
8 жыл бұрын
will you talk about decorations and interiors?
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
+AdoraBell I most certainly could. I'll probably share what I know in the making video of my castle model
@Maynard0504
4 жыл бұрын
This channel has made this work week a lot of fun. Coding is easier while listening to you explain donjons :)
@MalletMann
8 жыл бұрын
What would you consider the difference between a castle and a fortress?
@NathanK97
8 жыл бұрын
+MalletMann i would say a castle has more prestige... as in a lord or king would live in a castle... a fort is just thrown together for military personnel... it won't be as fancy or as strong
@RPSchonherr
7 жыл бұрын
Both words are rooted in Latin. Casa = house, forte= strong. A castle is a place where people live a fortress is just a strong point for soldiers it may or may not have any barracks. Hadrian's wall had fortresses but no castles. As far as castles though I have read stories from the middle ages where just a tower was called a castle.
@mariyan5433
7 жыл бұрын
I have read also that fortress were build near borders full with soldiers to rest/heal while they are on campaign in enemy territory or place that need to be defended against invaders.
@kevinsullivan3448
6 жыл бұрын
It's not just living space, fortresses have barracks for soldiers, it living space set aside for the owner of the structure. Some wealthy English Earls had more that one castle with private family rooms in each.
@takix2007
6 жыл бұрын
Robert Schuster: actually, Castle comes from the latin word "castellum", akin to the latin word "castrum" which is a fortified camp. "Casa" means "hut", and has little to nothing to do with a castle (even on an etymological point of view). "Fortress" comes from medieval french "Forterece" which meant "Strength".
@liamcullen3035
6 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks so much, this terminology will help me to describe castles when I’m running D&D!
@GatsbyCioffi
7 жыл бұрын
Question: Where does the term "citadel" fit into this concept? Does Citadel mean the castle plus walls, or is it something that encompasses space beyond the castle + walls?
@amitabhakusari2304
6 жыл бұрын
Andrew Fralinger I think it refers to the raised part/ platform of a settlement, typically including important parts like the lord/king's home, public buildings, barracks etc. Harappa and Mohenjodaro in India had some of the earliest examples of a citadel.
@SinerAthin
7 жыл бұрын
Those Machicolations sound like a really double-edged sword. With them being so big and close to each other, it seems really easy for a defender to fall through them; and if you wanted to shoot through the crenel, you'd basically have to balance between two big holes on either side while putting your focus on the attackers you're trying to hit. Now, add the darkness of night, some rain, possibly even some snow and ice; maybe some sleep deprivation or exhaustion from a long shift/ongoing battle, and I foresee the Machicolations posing a real safety hazard to the defenders xD As they are presented, I can only wonder how many people have accidentally fallen through them throughout history...
@tomsawyer4740
7 жыл бұрын
SinerAthin most had a wood trap door so you. can pick and choose which ones are open or closed
@LordO-thPalace
8 жыл бұрын
now that you explain what is a castles and keeps, now i challenge you to explain between castle and a citadel. :)
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
+Citizen Gamer Challenge accepted ^_^ I'll do a whole video on the definition of a castle as opposed to a fortress, stronghold, citadel, fort and chateau. All you need to do is keep an eye out for it.
@JamNJ1985
6 жыл бұрын
i have zero attention span and i watched the whole way through . that tells me, you sir, made a good one.
@zekel787
6 ай бұрын
Watching this in 2024 bc I'm gonna build a castle in minecraft
@danbrownellfuzzy3010
8 ай бұрын
I have read that one of the turning points of castle design came when defenders were having walls defeated by mining, which made necessary additional stonework under and beyond walls to aid in wall defense.
@2copy3copy4cpoy
8 жыл бұрын
very excited for more in-depth castle videos!
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
+JC Denton Me too! They'll be coming out intermixed with my other types of videos, all you need to do is keep an eye on my channel ^_^
@andrewtruax3977
7 жыл бұрын
And thus the machicolations meme was born
@edgepixel8467
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this. It was both informative and entertaining.
@T2266
8 жыл бұрын
Quiz time: how many time did Shad say "Castle" in this video?
@linklgas1691
6 жыл бұрын
too many
@kitslagle6296
6 жыл бұрын
Drinking game? lol
@marielleforgotmylastname8282
6 жыл бұрын
Medieval Engineers just got even more castley.
@nikan4now
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I'd been looking for the words corresponding to 'the teeth bits'! Fantastic!
@dylanmckeen7332
7 жыл бұрын
Shad, I recently watched this. Honor Guard is magnificent, I'm honestly inspired by it. Thus I want to ask your permission to build and exact replica of it in minecraft to post on the planet minecraft website.
@RonRicho
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this well made and informative video. I will be going back to it numerous times. There's a lot there to absorb but I feel like I know more about castles than I dd 30 minutes ago. Much appreciated.
@thed3rpclan814
7 жыл бұрын
you should make that castle model in minecraft
@woytaq
8 жыл бұрын
To my knowledge a Barbican (forgive me for not knowing if this is spelled correctly) is a type of gateway with two sets of gates on the opposite sides and small area on the inside, surrounded by walls and all the other battlement goodies that would allow defenders to efficiently defend the inner gates from above once the outer gates were breached. In case of your castle the barbican could be the area between the inner and outer gatehouses, but it would work even better if there was an outside wall completely closing it off and surrounding the passage.
@DhagGames
6 жыл бұрын
My mind was blown when you explained about the Don Jon and Dungeon, awesome video
@Birkbecks
6 жыл бұрын
a castle with a keep normally would have a curtain wall round it but if it has external wall or walls round it would be called a concentric castle great work keep it up many thanks
@AndreDoyonJr
8 жыл бұрын
I've seen a drawbridge where an inner door hinged at the ceiling acts as the counterbalance. I really found that interesting. Also, a note on moats, never have a moat filled with water if you are in a climate where that water will freeze.
@ntannoy7048
5 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, I just had a mid-life crisis as I know now where the word "Dungeon" comes from...
@gsr8553
7 ай бұрын
Thank you so much @shadiversity for this amazing video !
@davecannabis
5 жыл бұрын
good on ya Shad ! i have been following you since the beginning of KCD, and someone on a facebook KCD page mentioned a very enthusiastic Aussie guy who had a youtube on castles, love ya style mate especially how you enthuse almost over the top, but full of good information !!!
@matthewchristovich
6 жыл бұрын
Great video. One thing: Castles have no offensive features. Castles are strategically offensive but tactically defensive. The ability to 'strike back' or 'return fire', while important, is still part of the overall tactic of 'defending' rather than attacking.
@UncannyMelon
6 жыл бұрын
No, you don't understand. He really loves castles.
@diamondslayers540
4 жыл бұрын
Will you respond 2 years later??
@born2bbald12
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Well researched. Excellent presentation. Thank you.
@reigngreyson4046
3 жыл бұрын
Love the video. It would be nice to see a recap at the end. Just to bring all the facts back into focus.
@rickau
6 жыл бұрын
watched again just to admire the 3D model you made
@the_candlemaker4496
8 жыл бұрын
What did you use to design you castle, like software?
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
SketchUp
@the_candlemaker4496
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and good design and video!
@jameslindsey666
8 жыл бұрын
Damn! I use sketchup quite often. Did you have a solid plan beforehand (measurement inputs etc) or did you just wing it? Sketchup can be horribly unforgiving if you mess up a single thing. If youre an amateur like myself anyway.
@arms6827
8 жыл бұрын
at 20.01 he says "the example I have here on AutoCAD" wich both easier and more difficult to work with than sketchup. I love your castle by the way
@DeathbyDusk
8 жыл бұрын
He says Honour Guard, the name of the castle. Not AutoCad.
@Altrantis
8 жыл бұрын
Donjon is the french word for keep. The first keeps were just a large tower. In fact, that first watchtower could be a keep if it was the home of a minor lord or a landed knight, for instance. In the middle ages, people had a much amper idea of what a tower was. The term reffered to it's function rather than it's appearances.
@spaspants
Жыл бұрын
The castle model is BEAUTIFUL! I want to live there!!!
@michaelvs.scorpio7676
7 жыл бұрын
I like castles a lot too!! They are very beautiful as well as functional. Thanks for the video, Shad; I learned many details about castles that I didn't know before watching this clip.
@seigeengine
7 жыл бұрын
Maybe I'm not getting this, but doesn't the design of machicolations render crenelations largely useless, since it provides an open hole which can be shot up into, and the holes seem to tend to be directly in front of the crenelations, where you'd typically take cover? They also seem like a great place to fall while moving towards the crenels to fire arrows.
@seigeengine
7 жыл бұрын
MinutemanSam You need to to use the, as crenellations. If you're too stupid to actually figure out what I'm asking about, don't reply, kay?
@KheptlaxaXonu
7 жыл бұрын
seigeengine Dude, don't be an ass. You don't need to stand right up next to a Merlon to be protected. And since it's not the easiest thing in the world to charge right up next to a wall, shooting up through the hole would be fairly rare. Plus it's easier to shoot downward. and in cases like a gatehouse, you're likely right about some soldiers being able to shoot up through a machicolation. However, most soldiers were either melee or ranged and rarely both, especially with bows and arrows. No archer would charge the castle wall unless the formation was moving forward to an already captured position. And we can obviously see that the structure was effective, because the technique was A. dated after hoardings and B. widespread.
@seigeengine
7 жыл бұрын
KheptlaxaXonu I'm going to be an ass if morons keep wasting my time being too stupid to even think before replying. I never said you need to be right next to merlons _to be protected._ Also, an appeal to tradition is not a valid argument. Fuck off.
@KheptlaxaXonu
7 жыл бұрын
seigeengine It's not an appeal to tradition to say "the most successful techniques had a longer and more numerous lifespan." If a technique is good than those that know of it want to emulate it. That's not even close to an appeal to tradition. And since you have nothing to refute the other statements I made and all you are nitpicking isn't even there, the only logical conclusion I can come up with is that you either don't actually want your question answered because all you want is to be a provocateur. In which case I respond with saying I'm not attacking you, I'm not insulting you, there is no reason for you to respond with insults. Good day.
@seigeengine
7 жыл бұрын
KheptlaxaXonu It is an appeal to tradition to say that something makes sense because it was done, traditionally. I get it. You don't actually know enough to answer my question. Next time consider fucking off instead of making an ass of yourself and wasting everyone's time.
@ClausewitzMTH
8 жыл бұрын
Such a great video and that model of yours looks so delicious. By the way regarding the term itself, in German a castle (Burg) is defined as a fortified residence, but in the early medieval era the term "Burg" was used for a fortified city and later on additionel terms which meant the same thing came up and some were redefinded later on. Just some insights. :D
@Chillton
8 жыл бұрын
With modern political correctness you shouldn't be using machicolations. They are way too offensive :P
@gingerfreak01
5 жыл бұрын
Good vid! If I'd have added to it I would have mentioned that arrow slits are cut through the wall in a triangle so the archer has more flexibility to aim, and that spiral stairs in towers are clockwise to give defenders above more room to swing swords than attackers from below (I seem to remember that there is some disagreement there? But I've walked up such towers and being left-handed seemed too give me much more scope for movement). But that's just my wishlist, I very much enjoyed this.
@Supermario0727
7 жыл бұрын
Someone should share this video with Trump.
@jakemarsh8967
5 жыл бұрын
I recently bought Ark and my first goal was to build a historical castle, but I had to go overboard to actually defend against players. So I have about 6 outer baileys, each armed with a 3 gate thick gatehouses (with murder holes), a zwinger headed up the mountain towards the keep, then a final gatehouse surrounded by meticulations and about half a dozen murder holes within. There aren't any flyers allowed on raids on my server so they have to go through all the defenses I have set. That and my tribe and another have an alliance so we both inhabit the fort I built. This means we have like 15-30 players defending the keep at one time. I love how angry I made people by building that fortress.
@basilb4524
8 жыл бұрын
I would really like to know more about: -little things they use to defend castles like traps, architectural tricks such. -interior of the castle -castle types -and why exactly is a hill better than a moat? -if there were siege weapons/engines, were there anti-siege weapons/engines
@Nethan2000
8 жыл бұрын
+basil B (BoogerMan) I assume a hill is better than a moat because a moat isn't all that difficult to fill with some dirt, even when it's connected to a river and full of water.
@MedusaK666
5 жыл бұрын
I love castle, too. I felt such enthusiasm from you! and I'm happy about that! Thanks for the amazing video!
@MagicSteel1
6 жыл бұрын
Simply by going through the parts of castle, you can see the wisdom of people back then to defend better.
@swarnendu2007
8 жыл бұрын
Simply awesome!!! Thank you Shadiversity!!!!!
@kevinlobos5519
8 жыл бұрын
what an awesome video, i suscribed recently and i have been enjoying this channel a lot. Great stuff in here, congratulations Shad!
@mrabintom
4 жыл бұрын
You my friend, just made an important friend. Mark my words, but our paths may cross one day. And I will be grateful then. Thanks for now.
@visionist7
4 жыл бұрын
Some castles had double sets of doors and portcullises (portculli?) facing out from the gatehouse and also into the ward/bailey, all locked from inside the gatehouse. This prevented an enemy who had breached the bailey from easily opening the gates to let friendlies in. The whole castle battlements could be defended against the ward as well as the outside. Honourguard is an example of this philosophy with its interior facing crenellations on the ramparts. The only issue here is that if an enemy claims the ramparts, they can now hide behind the inside facing crenellations and defend themselves/attack the castle's own garrison in the keep or bailey. A small handful of castles, like Caerphilly, had anti-clockwise spiral stairs in several towers and gatehouses, so that you could fight your way into said towers more easily if they had been captured.
@iblackfeathers
3 жыл бұрын
excellent explainer overview. obviously this is an overview because details left out are details, just like torch holders for lighting, livestock, gardens and other structures for practical living inside the castle. and how would running water and sewage system work in castles?
@Philbrush
8 жыл бұрын
Great video Shad...looking forward to more on design and functionality.
@shadiversity
8 жыл бұрын
+Philbrush Ooooh yeah, that's going to be a fun video, but I need to finish the interiors as that plays just as an important role ^_^
@TerryProthero
7 жыл бұрын
This is pretty good. I didn't fully understand how the Merlons and Crenels worked as far as archers standing on the walls. I figured you would always have arrow slits (or arrow loops) in the Merlons, and there are castles that do that. But it doesn't sound like it was always done that way. An archer could fire from the Crenels. But that sounds a little bit risky to me and kind of asking for someone to pick you off. Having arrow slits in the Merlons sounds like a much better way to go.
@MegaOotje
2 жыл бұрын
In the multitude of reactions below I may have missed one point which is that the use of the words 'donjon' and 'keep'. In general donjon is just the continental/ French name for what the English call a keep. They are one and the same. So what you call a donjon in this really fantastic castle is just a (beautiful watch)tower. Please check Wikipedia on this. Furthemore: the use of prisons in mediaval times was quite rare. Lords did not tend to hold prisoners, let alone hold them in their keep/donjon where room usually wasn't abundant. Criminals were judged a.s.a.p. so their punishment could start right away. The only prisoners that were kept for a longer period of time were fellow noblemen who were kept in fairly comfortable quarters required by their noble title. They were bound to their quarters simply by giving their oath that they would not flee, usually until a ransom was paid.
@scootersachs9999
4 жыл бұрын
You know it's an old video when Shad doesn't scream: "MA-CHIC-U-LA-TIIIOOOOOOOONNSS!!!"
@siloseeairenicus5889
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, yes please! I love castles too. Looking forward to more castle videos!
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