If you think about it, this chapter really does not make much sense.
Why is it that the town's defense does not have a single person manning the parapits to shoot down arrows or, at least, throw down stuff like rocks or boiling oil on the monsters? Were the huge, otherwise impressive stone walls surrounding the town only for show? Do they not have embrasures or arrow slits? Was it not built with murder holes above the city's main gates in order to protect the more vulnerable gates?
Also, if your side is heavily outnumbered - particularly by 4-legged monsters who did not even bring ladders to climb the town's wall or seem capable of climbing, and who did not bring siege engines, battering rams or siege towers - why would their commander order them to fight OUTSIDE the town's walls? Isn't that suicide? Again, are the town's walls just for show? (Perhaps the town's walls are paper mache and would blow over with the Big Bad Wolf breathing heavily?) Again, wouldn't it make more sense to shoot arrows from the wall or throw down rocks and stuff?
Why is it that the town's defense does not have a single person manning the parapits to shoot down arrows or, at least, throw down stuff like rocks or boiling oil on the monsters? Were the huge, otherwise impressive stone walls surrounding the town only for show? Do they not have embrasures or arrow slits? Was it not built with murder holes above the city's main gates in order to protect the more vulnerable gates?
Also, if your side is heavily outnumbered - particularly by 4-legged monsters who did not even bring ladders to climb the town's wall or seem capable of climbing, and who did not bring siege engines, battering rams or siege towers - why would their commander order them to fight OUTSIDE the town's walls? Isn't that suicide? Again, are the town's walls just for show? (Perhaps the town's walls are paper mache and would blow over with the Big Bad Wolf breathing heavily?) Again, wouldn't it make more sense to shoot arrows from the wall or throw down rocks and stuff?