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what width/depth should a good moat have?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Learn the difference between personal and private property

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

you dug a moat to protect your "property" from the proletariat, i dug a moat to protect my home from my landlord. we are not the same

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

a good moat should be 3 spans of an oxen and too deep for an ox to ford. but your castellan should probably know this. are you looking for one?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

must be wider then a horse can jump , otherwise the Tatars will get you

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

we're coming for that fucking toothbrush

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Five feet deep and five feet across, and make sure you spit in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Forget my previous comment.

I'm just kinda jaded right now.

Ugh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Understandable and I did not take it in bad faith, no worries. Besides, aren't we all liberals anyways?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Everyone's a liberal except me. I'm the only real leftist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Communism is when no toothbrush

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Im coming for your favorite toothbrush.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That depends, are we talking about a dry moat or a water castle moat?

For any moat, the total height from the top of the wall to the bottom of the most should be enough that the enemy cannot use a ladder to climb over the wall. This was easier to achieve before you could walk into a hardware store and come back with a 40' ladder.

The most itself must be deep enough that your attackers cannot simply walk across it if it is a water moat, and any moat should have difficult terrain at the bottom, concrete tetrapods are great. Just make sure the highest point of the terrain is still deeper than a person could stand in.

The width of the moat should be at least 1:1 with the height of the walls above the waterline, and the wall should extend smoothly from the top to the bottom of the moat, with nothing that could be used as a hand or foot hold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Gonna need some laser sharks in that moat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let me guess: you became a communist within the last year or so and have recently discovered "toothbrush jokes" all the while, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bwahahahahahhaha