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Sixteen Ways To Defend A Walled City

The manual has fifteen ways to defend a walled city, and if one fails then I guess you fall back and try another method in the next city. Orhan is the colonel of the corps of engineers, and he’s caught up in a raid while trying to get hold of some rope from the empire’s central rope storage. With the naval supplies destroyed, there’s only one fleet equipped, which goes out to try and defeat the raiders. With no fleet, there’s no way to move the army, so when attackers come the guard are sent out from the capital. When they’re cut down, with no defence and no navy to bring in supplies, the capital is put under siege.

Orhan, a milkface, one of the conquered, subservient peoples, just wants to build bridges. But it seems he might have to defend a walled city.

In common with much of Parker’s work this has dark, cynical outlooks combined with detailed logistical and technical scenes. Also some good jokes.

Read This: For a bleakly amusing comedy of errors that results in thousands of people dying
Don’t Read This: Technical designs to more efficiently kill people aren’t funny, even in a graveyard way