Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20180220143037/@comment-17114085-20180328133351

(The statement: " As soon as the catapults and every other ranged attack necessary was drawed to hit the bridge" is wrong. Only the catapults were aiming at the bridge. Ortis ordered the archers not to focus on Bouros.

The road to the Whiterun gates bottlenecks enemies, as does the drawbridge. First of all the enemy must head to the outer gate, then go and around the path to the second gate where the drawbridge and moat are located. Then there is that courtyard outside the main gate. All of those serve to bottleneck the enemy and have battlements and watchtowers around where the Nords can shoot down from. Whiterun's layout is actually very well thought out. Even the seperate districts with walls surrounding them help hinder the enemy advancement.)

The defenders on the main gatehouse focused on the ram. They dropped the last of their burning oil right on top of it and the archers tried to hit the soldiers manning it.

At the drawbridge's gatehouse, there were still archers and they had a clear shot at the enemy's exposed flank as they tried to break the main gate.

The Nords on the watchtowers along the road that were ignored by the Reachmen continued to fire down on the enemy. A few arrows were aimed right at Pan as he began walking up the road.