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Topic: Murderholes


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  Device Forts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Short and squat, with normally 3 tiers of long-distance offensive armament and a couple of tiers of defensive armament.
The bays had wide splays for easy traverse of the guns, walls were thick and curved to deflect shot, and the medieval portcullises, murderholes and drawbridges were perpetuated.
Later ones in the chain, however, took into account more recent developments and were of a more angular form, with triangular bastions,as at Yarmouth.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Device_Forts   (256 words)

  
 Bunker - WwiiolDocumentationProject   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
As such, they are often very heavily defended - in many ABs, one or more Machinegun AI (Artificial Intelligence) emplacements are directed inwards toward the bunker entrance, making teamwork important in infiltrating them.
Additionally, both AB bunker types have firing slits or murderholes which are often manned by enemy infantry (EI).
Many techniques exist for raiding bunkers, including (but not limited to) the use of smoke and fragmentary grenades, preparatory bombing by CAS planes, and good old fashioned "Infantry Rush" tactics.
wwiiol.vwgn.com /index.php?title=Bunker   (232 words)

  
 Gildur Atlas
Within cities and towns they may be less fortified, rural locations may result in structures bordering on keeps or even small castles.
The entry may be defended by murderholes, arrow slits, a portcullis or such things, and the door is always hinged inside and often equiped with a latchbar.
To the left of the foyer will be any hitching area for mounts, urban manors typically have stables outside.
www.sierratel.com /aum/Gildur/Atlas.html   (995 words)

  
 Fettes College Edinburgh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When we arrived at the castle we were greeted by a tour guide who informed us that only a few unlucky people had fallen to their death off the castle walls.
With this thought in mind we made our way through the gatehouse and below the murderholes.
After a quick lunch we were greeted by the unusual sight of a Garrison soldier making his way across the grass, ready to talk to us about the castle's interesting colour and bullet marks.
www.fettes.com /Article.aspx?article=1142   (384 words)

  
 VN Boards - The design of NF towers sucks and needs a revision.
Those people defending figured that it would be a bad thing if the enemy could run up to the wall.
The murderholes in THOSE castels actually were usable.
The albs have gotten so good at it that defending a tower is pretty much delaying the inevitable.
vnboards.ign.com /frontiers_discussion_board/b22501/81367273/p1?2   (369 words)

  
 [LOCATION]: The Ragged Fortess: Autumn: Era X - Alleria
Sturdy, yet simple walls worked both as a defensive structure and as a way to keep the sand out.
Small slits were placed in it to work as murderholes, but they were usually walled up when the fortress was not under attack.
The walls were patrolled by a few individuals who seemed more interested in hunching together to keep the sand out of their eyes, sandstorms were common fare out here, and smoking their small cigarettes.
www.alleria.com /forums/showthread.php?t=43900   (941 words)

  
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Entering, faces can be seen behind arrowslits and through murderholes, watching the group as they go by.
They are escorted quickly through to are large antechamber, where a large figure in fl adn silver platemail sits awaiting them, flanked by six skeletal warriors, bare bladed held perfectly vertically in front of them.
Caprice's robe brushes against the wall of a hallway, and something like a tiny brown ball is left behind in a crack.
silver-gateway.com /caol/text/aae3/aae3-26.txt   (12024 words)

  
 Hear Ye!
After climbing and descending 530 steep steps (most of them spiral) we gazed through the out from the crenellations on the castlewall over the misty countryside.
We gazed down the murderholes to the ditch surrounding the castle, some 100 feet below.
We walked the grand dining rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms.
www.hearye.org /permalink.php?pid=2179   (662 words)

  
 Hell on a Leash (Chapter 1)
Despite its age, the fortress stood solidly, wedged between two mountains, hidden from view by their twisting, clifflike sides.
A stony ledge led to the main entrance, which was a tunnel filled with murderholes and sealed off with a rusted but solid portcullis at each end.
A short crenellated wall overlooked the approach, but only a lone lookout was posted.
www.squidlord.com /hoal/leash.html   (3958 words)

  
 VG Cats Forum - Medievil RPG anyone
They nodded and let Audra and her company pass.
The gateway was thick and, looking up, one could see the murderholes that pocked the arching stone ceiling.
Once beyond the porticullus, Audra led her companions through the cobbled streets until they came to a circular white building.
forum.vgcats.com /showthread.php?p=55316   (965 words)

  
 VN Boards - Overpowered PC
My advice: what you may need is a dungeon full of kobolds...
little, nasty, shrewd kobolds with some rust monster pets, lots of traps (pits filled with thin oil, for example), murderholes with archers behind them, and of course kobold sorcerers...
And second advice: don't be too nice a DM.
vnboards.ign.com /Message.aspx?topic=73702009   (2433 words)

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