>>95818897 (OP) A splendid invention, my lord! Your genius never ceases to amaze. However, if I may be so bold as to voice a concern, how will our own horses and oxen leave your Eminent Grace's domain?
>>95819535 Ah, of course! How silly of me to question your boundless intellect, my Liege. How fortunate that those barbarous centaurs cannot comprehend such a simple solution, lest we be doomed!
>>95819651 Calm yourself soldier! I'm sure the boards are merely coincidence. You know those savages and their backwards superstition. His Royal Highness's defensive measures are absolutely infallible!
>>95819964 ...yeah...but, I mean it's kinda a bummer that they are a half ton of bone and muscle and boards can be easily dragged across flat ground or towed in by the cartful though...
>>95820143 Under arrow, boiling oil and rock barrage? I'm pretty sure the guards and other outlooks won't just let them set up without a fight. Also what if the castle is up on a mountain? Open plains is one thing but steep rugged mountain terrain is another or swamp lands and muddy muck.
>>95819465 Not if you don't know it's there. The grating can be camouflaged. And even if you don't camouflage it, the grating can just be made long enough that a centaur could not reasonably jump over it.
>>95820163 I like that this metaphor has become so stretched it's now "centaurs would probably find it hard to engage in a long term well defended siege".
>>95820118 Yes. Horses have a lot of trouble because horses are retarded and have basically zero depth perception. Cows, however, absolutely can and will walk across these, they just do it very slowly. Especially a design like OP's pic which has wide flat sections across it. They can skirt the edges of it unless you have really good fence placement also.
>>95820163 Yes. Not that would need to happen. They could use superior bows and haul/operate heavy siege machinery more efficiently. They could pick the range they wanted to operate from because they are faster and stronger. The only hope your humans have is that they stored enough recourses before the centaurs move on, but they will be back.
>>95819651 Don't fret my good man, those are merely crude shields, not traversal tools. As is fitting for such thoughtless brutes, they are simply imitating the way our heroic warriors carry themselves unto battle.
Anonymous
6/8/2025, 2:52:44 PM No.95822602
>>95819964 My liege, installing these rolling devices all around the castle cost far more money than it costs the horse-men barbarians to bring in some boards. You are bankrupting the kingdom on these ineffective defensive methods.
>>95818897 (OP) >Having Centaurs charge a wall >Wasting all the valuable strength when they could be assisting the logistical division and help with transporting ammo and supplies to the siege operations.
Next thing you idiots will tell me is that you command your Harpy legions to go peck out the eyes of attackers.
>>95824151 Because the female centaur will scream, cry and beg you to stop like a human would. So you get all the benefits of both fucking a horse and raping a human woman all in one glorious package.
>>95818897 (OP) It only works if you lack the mental capacity to work over it. It's as if saying that a drainage trench is going to stop people from getting on the other side of it.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 12:17:53 AM No.95826008
>>95822748 Are your archers capable of piercing through three inches of steel body armour, too, because they aren't archers, but a flak cannon? No? Then tough fucking luck.
>>95820806 So you are saying you've got a super-complex trou de loup that don't actually work on MOST things and only stop dumb animals, but doesn't kill them, just traps them? Seems like a really dumb way to overcomplicate the most basic trap.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 12:30:35 AM No.95826087
>>95826008 My army of horse flies and chigger/mite clay pots will make that armor USELESS
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 12:58:25 AM No.95826276
>>95822873 THE CLOPPENING APPROACHS NEIGH IT GALLOPS UPON US!!!
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 1:00:58 AM No.95826293
Hoof nerds seething in this thread.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 1:02:15 AM No.95826299
>>95822828 Do you think, logistically, a centaur would consume as much food as a cavalryman and their horse, or more?
>>95826008 Yes because my archers all use magical arrows that can pierce any armor. Don't like that I pulled that out of my ass? Tough shit. That's what happens when you set things in a fantasy setting.
>>95827437 To put that idea in perspective. One cubic inch of steel weighs 0.283 pounds One square foot of 3 inch steel would be that ร3ร12ร12 = 122 pounds With 300 pounds of weight allowance that's almost 2.5 square feet of that armor. Given size of a horse body that's barely enough for a modest bikini.
>>95827497 Fear not, my unusually effeminate advisor, you forget about the invulnerable skeleton thralls patrolling the catacombs and the feces demon I bound to our sewers that is obligated to defend me and my realm.
>>95827456 Anon, horses have more issues with mountainous terrain compared to donkeys. The point is that the speed advantage of a horse is negated or cut down, leaving them open to missile weapons and hardened choke points.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:24:15 AM No.95827947
>>95827525 Your grace, the mole men, they've... tunneled around the thralls.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 6:47:46 AM No.95828062
Get some tripwires set up. If a horse breaks its leg, it usually leads to a trip to the nearest glue factory.
>>95828062 >If a horse breaks its leg, it usually leads to a trip to the nearest glue factory Because a horse is dumb animal and won't let the leg rest long enough to properly heal.
Anonymous
6/9/2025, 9:13:04 AM No.95828566
>>95828062 That's because horses are cheap to make but expensive to heal.
"KENKU could be here," he thought. "Iโve never been outside the cornfield before. There could be KENKU anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his stitched-up chest. "I HATE KENKU," he thought. The eerie sound of wind whistling through a cracked flute someone left on a scarepole reverberated across the empty pasture, making an old wagon creak even as the fermented gourd juice sloshed in his straw-stuffed belly and washed away his (merited) fear of mimicry-loving black birdfolk after dusk. "With a cloak and a crowbar, you can go anywhere you want," he said to himself, out loud.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 7:51:19 AM No.95835865
>>95822828 If I had a harpy harem I mean a harpy legion I wouldn't even bother with conquest.
>>95837493 >>95819727 Threads like these are the last gasps of a once vibrant board trying to cal back to the good days, desperate for the fast and free discourse before the concept of the "general" was invented and discussion calcified, cloistered in opaque 300+ post threads, autonoko forever directing posters back to the same place to keep it going. It's all over now. Enjoy being a fly on the corpse, or don't.
>>95837526 Threads like these are fucking pathetic. Nothing but retarded puns and larp jokes, they deserve to die off with the rest of the cringe, so that world-building threads can start to rise up instead.
>>95837640 >>95837648 This is what I mean, you retards think you're somehow witty for repeating obvious quotes, like those idiot boomers who start doing stupid Monty Python voices whenever someone mentions a parrot. Get a real personality, you NPCs.
>>95818897 (OP) I've never seen a centaur swim, so could't a castle moat do the same thing and pull double duty by still retaining the ability to stop sappers?
>>95837804 I could actually see them being pretty clumsy in the water considering the way a centaur's body morphology works. Shallow water wouldn't be a problem sure, they could dog paddle like actually horses do, but deep water? They seem like their buoyancy would be fucked for agile swimming and diving. Breaststrokes, front crawls, butterflies would be all but impossible. You could get a backstroke though, maybe.
>>95818897 (OP) What does this do for fortification that isn't already solved and done better by razor wire? If pic related can stop cars it can surely stop soft fleshy horses.
>>95820335 It's a good thing Warhammer goatmen can't climb like goats.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 6:27:27 PM No.95838662
>>95821469 Most games have difficult terrain rules. >>95821691 Centaurs would probably find it easier than some, since they're their own cavalry . But there's the calorie question.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 6:30:27 PM No.95838681
>>95821768 The Goog tells me a horse requires anything from 15,000 to 30,000 calories a day. It is probably safe to assume a centaur would require more than that, since they're 1.5 horses at least physically and have human level intelligence. Sounds like you have a problem if a smart foe just burns their food as they withdraw.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 6:32:33 PM No.95838698
>>95827506 And as we know from Monmusu, a modest bikini is completely inadequate to the task.
Anonymous
6/10/2025, 8:27:47 PM No.95839629
>>95837694 Oh look, and the whatgames fag has turned up to complete the shit pie.
>>95826594 No human head or jaw is chewing 10kg of hay a day and a horse has like 5 times the energy requirements of a human. At least lamias can fudge it with cold blooded metabolism, but a centaur diet has to be mostly high calorie human food. Being omnivorous would help. These bitches are living on chocolate and cheeseburgers.
>>95824151 Oh, /gif/, what have you done to me? >>95838073 Just started playing this, feel like running it. Which system could do the combat/exploration like it? 4e?
Theoretically speaking, if a centaur was strong enough to support a human/dwarf/gnome rider wouldn't they just be outright more effective than a normal horse? >Mount can take care of all the navigation whilst the rider takes care of the fighting and occasional orders. >If one or the other dies it's probably way easier to get acquainted to a new partner. >If a taur breaks it's leg it's actually smart enough to rest and let it heal.
Hows this for an idea. A room where the floor is inlaid with thousands of ball bearings, set into the floor so that they can rotate freely but can't be removed or slip out, so if anyone steps on them the bearings spin and make the floor impossible to walk on in any stable manner. Cover the floor in grease for extra slip and also to keep the bearings lubed.