Talk:Landing Castle/@comment-88.117.73.97-20140913180149/@comment-67.52.123.228-20140913192644

You're right, no anti air guns, instead it just has tons and tons of missile batteries and an embarked armored battalion that required act of Inaho and dozens of decoys to get the protagonists down alive. Completely defenselss! :P

They appear to be tanks, yes, albeit with an oversized turret specially designed to allow high angle fire. Most tanks can't do that since the breach would end up interfering with the turret basket either during elevation or during the fire/reload sequence, not to mention trying to shoot an aicraft down with a modern tanks is. . . not advised. It's likely more precise to refer to them as 'self propelled guns'. And yes there is quite a big difference in how they would be employed versus a tank!

There was also plenty of other hardware deployed by Saazbaum to assault the UE base. At least three embarked sky carriers and two additional (Conventional?) martian Kataphracts which would suggest that the Knights have trusted subordinates who are either Knights themselves like Sir Trilliam or trusted men at arms (without titles of their own) who act to defend the castle and secure its surroundings while the Knight project's power.

Still, I retract most of my more 'optimisitic' speculation about the castles. While they can obviously defend themselves against minor attacks, for instance a lone squad of Kats or a few fighters, unless we see more specialized castles customized by their respective Lords for direct participation in battle they appear to be very much meant as mobile bases and artillery platforms able to deliver a lot of shock and firepower but almost completely dependent on their compliment onboard compliment for defense.