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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blood Jester" data-source="post: 144406" data-attributes="member: 922">Actually...Men could break down walls with hammers, that's why most castles had things like boiling oil to pour down on anyone strolling up to the wall with a hammer (or ladder, but let us not quibble<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).  Archers also can impede wall-whacking.  And if all else fails, the noise alone should be enough to wake your lazy-ass sally team to charge out and play pokey-pokey with the whackers!  (Read that the right way you perv!)Oh yeah...One note I forgot to add to my 'hammer handles won't break' point.  The handle is simply a means of accelerating the head to a nice speed.  You don't apply force to the impact with the handle, the momentum of the head deals the blow, and the last foot or so of swing the handle is just along for the ride.  Thus it takes none of the force of impact.  This is why:1)  You always want to use the largest (i.e. heaviest) head practicable for the job that you are strong enough to lift/swing.2)  An experienced worker who understands how to swing will ALWAYS outlast the much stronger and higher endurance poor fool who thinks he has to 'hit' the target as hard as he can.</blockquote>