Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27991709-20160801171429/@comment-26172435-20160801202524

Recneps wrote: (Or click his link and read.. Alte's right.)

On topic.. Burning oil is a common idea, but actually not that practical as a defense.. Dropping a rock works as well as dropping burning oil, and is much cheaper and easier.. You don't have to find or produce some sort of oil, you don't have to take care in not spilling it, you don't have to be careful not to burn yourself.. You just have to go find a nice-sized rock(or rather, get it from the quarry before it is used..) and then carry it to the top of the wall. ... and one can aim with solid projectiles, and more easily time their 'release'.

Let's say that pooring hot liquids isn't a weird notion ... it may only become meaningful after addition of siege ladders & towers and battering rams, when foes will be located within pooring distance ... and probably not be able to quickly spread out as they notice something incoming from atop the walls they're trying to breach or climb.