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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5128219" data-attributes="member: 4937">This raises alot of points.  How common of a threat is a mid-level adventuring party?  If the threat isn't very common, then the castle might still be useful against common threats and hense justifiable.  If the threat is very common, what is the chance that the castle is defended by a mid-level adventuring party?  What disadvantage would a mid-level party be placed at, if they had to attack another mid-level party who were fortified in a castle and had at their command 18-25 men-at-arms of a level appropriate to the campaign world (both 'low level' and 'mid-level' are relative to the demographics of the population). The question of how you'd have to garrison a castle given the common threats to it hasn't been raised that much (except when several people noted that gaurd dogs and other creatures with the 'scent' ability would be good investments).  We also haven't addressed the strategy of castle buildnig.  Garrison castles as were used to project a presence into the Welch frontier, and deter incursions by the Welsh into England, and project English culture into Wales (by encouraging town development in their vicinity) aren't the only strategic use of castles.  Even if garrison castles no longer make strategic sense (a point I'm not sure I agree with, since I think 'low to mid-level adventuring party' would be the standard garrison), that doesn't obselete the other uses of a castle like for example, defending a city or strategic point.   A castle that housed the garrison of a cities military could be much more strongly defended than a frontier outpost.That is the key questions we are trying to answer.  What are the alternatives to castle construction?</blockquote>

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