LE Murder Holes At Fort Dawnguard

[twowolves80]

Very simply:

Fort Dawnguard has what are called "machicolations" along the upper portion of the walls and towers. However, the machicolations are flawed in that they are not properly constructed, and everyone, Bethesda included, seems to have missed this. Machicolations were an advancement in engineering that allowed a direct way to attack wall sappers and other enemies who might attempt to build ramparts or escalades to reach the top. The murder-holes would allow castle defenders to rain down boiling oil, flaming pitch, stones, arrows, excrement, rat carcasses and worse on top of the enemies while offering relative safety to the defenders who didn't have to lean way over crenelations to do so otherwise.

 

This is even indicated by the higher walls and tall narrow arrow slits of Fort Dawnguard, that would preclude defending the base of the walls and towers because sentries wouldn't be able to lean out of them and the machicolations already project the sentries way past the base of the walls and towers, making them even less defensible.

 

Furthermore, the constructors of Fort Dawnguard wouldn't have added machicolations without murder-holes, anyway, because machicolations were very expensive additions to castles due to the extra engineering and specialized masonry and stone-shaping work that was required to pull them off correctly without them collapsing. Prior to stone machicolations, castles would employ wooden "hoardings," or covered platforms over the battlements that acted as machicolations. They were only used during times of war, though as they were made of wood and therefore fire-prone, so one good flaming arrow and whoosh, the whole thing goes up. Stone hoardings, or machicolations, were therefore the next step in advanced siege warfare.

Therefore, I would like to see Fort Dawnguard have functional murderholes added to it (and perhaps a proper barbican) since Fort Dawnguard is clearly meant to be anachronistic, a bit of far more advanced technology in a time when such things would be stunning to most, akin to the Ulfbehrt sword being made of high-carbon steel 800 years ahead of the technique being discovered during the industrial revolution.

To whit, I want to see these:

 

added to these:

http://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/110/5013400-1362184469.jpg

 

Thanks!