Talk about extreme defensible positions. Mansion complex on top of a huge rock pillar

[CamoDeafie]

Not sure where this is. Click to embiggen. Architecture says Spanish/Latin America? Maybe not?



Katshki Pillar in western Georgia country, apparently is a famous place.


Something I'd like to do. Make bridge a drawbridge and bam, natural defense.


For all these, they're most vulnerable to earthquakes, and airborne assaults simply due to their prominence.

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[Hop Sing]

According to google images that first one is this. Cut and Pasted, hence the big font.

Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Meteora

 

[Hueco]

Reminds me of the Enchanted Tower, New Mexico. It'd be a fun climb.

 

[CRBMoA]

I am afraid of heights. Nope!

 

[User 1234]

Unless you have a viable farm and rainwater up there the attacker need only starve you out. They'd pull up some couches and surround the bottom of the cliff while holding barbecues.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Unless you have a viable farm and rainwater up there the attacker need only starve you out. They'd pull up some couches and surround the bottom of the cliff while holding barbecues.

The monastery looks like it has a large vegetables/fruits garden, and possibly a herd of goats or sheep. The Katshki Pillar, it looks like just a look-out connected to the property below one of its faces. Might also be a rain collection unit too.
The coastal one clearly could have fruit/nut trees, a much smaller vegetable garden, and more seafood from the waters nearby.

 

[GWS]

LOL
Can you imagine getting to the bottom of all those stairs and then remembering that you left the car keys back at the top?

 

[CRBMoA]

LOL
Can you imagine getting to the bottom of all those stairs and then remembering that you left the car keys back at the top?

Or your MASK!?!?!

 

[P7M13]

Great place for a James Bond villain's villa.

 

[Hueco]

LOL
Can you imagine getting to the bottom of all those stairs and then remembering that you left the car keys back at the top?

I kind of know what that's like...



I forgot my cash in the room once....only once.

 

[Pops1911]

Similar setting. Lasted a good long time until Oliver Cromwell showed up with his cannons. Looks much different now.

 

[GWS]

I kind of know what that's like...

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I forgot my cash in the room once....only once.

Oh man...

 

[CamoDeafie]

Similar setting. Lasted a good long time until Oliver Cromwell showed up with his cannons. Looks much different now.

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And now if an army were invading, one would have to deal with missiles, aircraft, and naval gunfire. But against "peers" of humans who aren't military equipped?

 

[The Heretic]

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Not sure where this is. Click to embiggen. Architecture says Spanish/Latin America? Maybe not?


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Katshki Pillar in western Georgia country, apparently is a famous place.
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Something I'd like to do. Make bridge a drawbridge and bam, natural defense.


For all these, they're most vulnerable to earthquakes, and airborne assaults simply due to their prominence.

And mortars/artillery, and drones, and shooting from a higher position.

A better place IMO:

Whittier, Alaska

Whittier, Alaska - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Remote

Accessible by one road only by a tunnel.

Bombproof (WWII era) building.

Tunnel between school and residence

 

[VanceInWA]

I kind of know what that's like...

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I forgot my cash in the room once....only once.

Cinque Terra maybe? Or Amalfi Coast?

 

[CamoDeafie]

And mortars/artillery, and drones, and shooting from a higher position.

A better place IMO:

Whittier, Alaska

Whittier, Alaska - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Remote

Accessible by one road only by a tunnel.

Bombproof (WWII era) building.

Tunnel between school and residence

Yeah... wait until thousands of people brave the Canadian frontier illegally to get there
These rock pillars are more accessible.. and yeah, we could apply what Whittier does to localities that allows it.

Actually.
Don't the Military have serious bunker buster bombs that would in theory make short work of that WW2 building and the tunnels?

 

[CamoDeafie]

What I'm saying is that.. having the literal high ground is more of a benefit than a detriment for the defenders, at least until there's aerial attacks and long range artillery, but even dispersed and underground, still subject to bunker busters and hyperbaric explosives which is quite dangerous.. and lets not forget... the issue of underground radioactivity (radon gas) which is said to be the 2nd leading cause of lung cancer behind smoking

 

[partsed]

Great place for a James Bond villain's villa.

They used an old monastery in "For Your Eyes Only" it was where the final shoot out/action scene was…..
"ATAC to St. Cyril's" is what Max the parrot kept telling Bond and Melina

 

[The Heretic]

Don't the Military have serious bunker buster bombs that would in theory make short work of that WW2 building and the tunnels?

Yes, if you have those kinds ordinance and the delivery systems for them, then being on top of a pillar won't help you any, you would be even more vulnerable.

This is where the "fighter jets and bombs" that govs have come into play.

 

[Hueco]

Cinque Terra maybe? Or Amalfi Coast?

Cinque Terre: Riomaggiore