If I run a dnd game again I'm going to include a architect named Shad, who's dream is to design a castle someday.
@SongbirdGaming5 жыл бұрын
In my fantasy work in progress most castle design and building is done by dwarves. Im going to name the most famous dwarven architect of all time Shad or a variation of that name, in honor of this video.
@fratguide98354 жыл бұрын
I’ve got Honourgard the Keep of Viscount Shad the Shatterer in the far north of my world and it kinda looks like this
@colboy1fish4 жыл бұрын
No, make Shad, the talented swordman.
@willemiam13874 жыл бұрын
Who always wears gambeson
@navidryanrouf4414 жыл бұрын
Do you have a map of this castle made?
@NexusAkayuki5 жыл бұрын
Dude, I just sat through 45 minutes of a guy lecturing me about the layout of a fictional castle, and by the end of it I was legit mad there wasn't MORE.............. I loved this so much hhhhhh
@majorpayne95085 жыл бұрын
Yea kinda felt the same way but now I'm just trying to make a castle in any game now, thanks shad for your enthusiasm about castles and medevil stuff.
@MrTaktic1215 жыл бұрын
🤔 Might try making this in conan
@Sire.English5 жыл бұрын
Its that you said the time of the video was 45m. I was just watching and thought it was a 15m Video and went through the commente out of random. Talk about a documentary :P
@seanhaney87485 жыл бұрын
He does all sorts of castle analysis. Check out his other videos. I love castles as well.
@diamonddog2575 жыл бұрын
i'm a canadian engineer in mexico ; building a castle, in mountains, with a fairy-tale style..... [ cinder blocks, and mex are a bargain ] - seeing if dum-dum here, knows anything i do not.........
@andyknightwarden97463 жыл бұрын
Shad's Winterfell: You need 10,000 men to man it. Honorguard: You best be prepared to sacrifice 10,000 men for every section you take.
@ultralight96252 жыл бұрын
A keep is nothing more than a massive force multiplier from a statical analysis.
@harrymu148 Жыл бұрын
Now I'm just curious as to what would happen if they were two border fortresses that has decades of skirmishes between them.
@JeremieThe Жыл бұрын
@@harrymu148 Just look at the history between the Italian cities of Bologna and Modena.
@abhishankpaul Жыл бұрын
Okay lads, we cannot breach the gate houses like that or the zwingers will get us. George, get those cannons in place, they need tons of stones for their graves. Move your asses everyone
@King.Leonidas Жыл бұрын
@@abhishankpaul this castle would be hard to siege even with cannons
@connerreid35793 жыл бұрын
As an architect who has used SketchUp professionally, I shudder to think of what the Components window for this model must look like, not to mention trying to use the Follow Me tool to get those walls in the right spots. This would take a 2-3 person team something like two weeks, working full-time, to get modeled at this level of detail. Hats off to you for the dedication and labor. Really impressive work!
@truslew80896 жыл бұрын
One does not simply walk into Honorguard.
@shadiversity6 жыл бұрын
Lol, oh man this was the best, well done sir, well done.
@CalebRichardsChannel6 жыл бұрын
Mount Doom needed some drawbridges and portcullises.
@Alpha.Phenix6 жыл бұрын
The one castle to rule them all...
@peasant82466 жыл бұрын
Well memed good sir!
@aramere36505 жыл бұрын
Shadiversity if you don’t write this into the book, I will be sorely dissatisfied.
@BlackEpyon6 жыл бұрын
This is what happens when somebody runs a channel that features reviews and critiques on the pros and cons of various castle designs. Internet moron: "Oh yeah? If you're so smart, why don't you make a better one?" Shad: "Alright then, I will!"
@Hello-og3 жыл бұрын
I read that in his voice!
@BlackEpyon3 жыл бұрын
@@Hello-og I was actually thinking Buzz Lightyear, but Shad works too.
@Strellok1003 жыл бұрын
If I ever become a billionaire I'm hiring Shad to construct md a castle.
@g1jetfireandrainbowdash7982 жыл бұрын
I too would want this, only addition being a bunker under said castle.
@VincentGonzalezVeg2 жыл бұрын
@@g1jetfireandrainbowdash798 winter is coming 10 years dungeon Honestly for a survival shelter it would need to be pretty big, like big enough to feel like outside, like how basketball gyms can feel like that
@quakxy_dukx2 жыл бұрын
Take a castle design like this and modify it a bit to be more efficient with modern building materials like concrete and steel
@Cyph3rHaxPalm2 жыл бұрын
you don't need billion of dollars, you just need to use your own head & design your own castle as the way you like it! Because billion dollars won't be enough for you to make all the changes you originally come up with! Changes cost more money than the original design :(
@marcelm.28482 жыл бұрын
Same
@topperman64 жыл бұрын
37:15 Keep-Builder:"There is no access inside the keep itself, from these battlements." Rogue: **Shatters window**
@Hello-og3 жыл бұрын
Easily solved by 'pushing' those battlements out 30ft or so and planting a garden in the newly created space (just don't plant trees).
@TheAtkey2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I noticed that weakness, an oversight by Shad or an intentional flaw?
@BulletsNBrass2 жыл бұрын
@@TheAtkey I assumed those internal dividers in the windows are metal and tough enough to be impractical for the average fighting man to get through in armor without taking so long and being so likely to get stuck that a child with a kitchen knife could defend it. But yeah, same thought in terms of a potential weakness. I'd probably set it up so you can seal doors to those areas from outside the room so someone who gets in then has to get through another door. Hopefully by then you've gotten some defenders in place.
@mesiagamer52172 жыл бұрын
Guard: **shoots Rogue as they get stuck.**
@shok241992 жыл бұрын
Or, you know, you could just not have giant windows there. Maybe a few murder slits for archers to fire out onto the battlements.
now we need him to make his own medieval town surrounding this with all his castle, who else wants to see that
@Fallout_New_Vegas2 жыл бұрын
Me
@ReformedSauron2 жыл бұрын
Definitely.
@coyotedreaming2 жыл бұрын
Yes, please!
@g1jetfireandrainbowdash7982 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@amehak19222 жыл бұрын
Omg yes!
@bladewolfvii63834 жыл бұрын
"Zwinger" roughly translates to enforcer or cage, in case you'd prefer an english wording for it. The word Zwinger has also been used for attack dog cages.
@Palocles2 жыл бұрын
It’s also used to refer to people who put their car keys into a bowl when they go to parties.
@ElggNamba2 жыл бұрын
Zwinger = a kennel (roughly translated). a cage where you keep your dog e.g.
@MegaOotje2 жыл бұрын
Zwinger in terms of fortress building is the German word for bastion, the extruding part of a polygonal (star) fortress. In Shad castle this part of the wall sticks out but does not function as a bastion: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7d3asyHxqy3d6c.html
@kargaroc386 Жыл бұрын
If this word survived in english it might be something like "twinger"
@kargaroc38610 ай бұрын
or maybe "thwinger" (th-wing-er /θwɪŋɚ/) but idk I'm not a linguist the proto-west-germanic word was þwingan + er (or, thwinger, I guess) apparently the old frisian word was thwinga (thwinger), and old frisian was probably mutually intelligible with old english. someone who knows the sound changes from PWG to english would need to figure it out. but that person's not me, and we'll probably never know.
@Adam_okaay3 жыл бұрын
I'm doing rewatch of old shadiversity episodes and I just gotta say in love all the sheer number of kite shields in the castle.
@panzerlamb91965 жыл бұрын
In this keep, every day is leg day.
@mansoorhameed70754 жыл бұрын
lmao
@Squirrelanditsnutz4 жыл бұрын
I’m a simple man. I see leg day meme, I upvote leg day meme.
@Amy_the_Lizard4 жыл бұрын
I feel like that applies to most heavily fortified keeps honestly
@BetImRight4 жыл бұрын
-Dying Laughing-
@MrBlack09503 жыл бұрын
Never skip leg day
@tyrant-den8846 жыл бұрын
We need to get this guy working on a Castle Tycoon game.
@KingBobXVI6 жыл бұрын
Stronghold (the original) is one of the best medieval RTS games! Definitely the best for actually designing castles and fortresses!
@somerton43836 жыл бұрын
Then there's age of empires 2...*facepalm*
@TheWampam6 жыл бұрын
Stronghold is shit when it comes to designing castles or giving you the feeling of having one...
@peeblekitty57805 жыл бұрын
ohmygodyes someone get Shad up with a game developer, this needs to happen it would be such a cool game
@Oxxyjoe5 жыл бұрын
Medieval Engineers is a game which allows you to build a trebuchet and a castle. grinding for resources is a bother, but it's one to look at
@ryanm95663 жыл бұрын
This is... mind-blowing. The amount of engineering and architectural consideration that went into this is insane. Downright impressive mate.
@PadraicSmith3 жыл бұрын
The sheer amount of thought and detail you've put into this castle is utterly staggering. I can barely keep up with the nuances and particulars of your design it's incredible.
@CT0345 жыл бұрын
I appreciate where you located your granaries. While people would have a point about locating them against your inner bailey wall if they were smaller, the central location has another couple points of merit. Acts of war aside, pests and moisture are problems for any food store. Having your granaries located exposed, across an open area and elevated makes them less accessible to pests such as rodents. The exposed location also keeps the structure from getting too humid from being next to a wall which would block air circulation around the building. Granaries are also one of the first places you would think to sabotage the strength of any enemy's fortified holdout. Your granaries are easily monitored by any of a large number of sentry locations and there are no particularly advantageous approaches to them for a saboteur to use.
@jonomoth25815 жыл бұрын
Large quantities of dry grain and grain/flour dust is also very flammable. There are several accounts of real castles surrendering after someone on the inside was bribed to set a match to the granary
@solarsailer41665 жыл бұрын
I would imagine that several cats were very useful in keeping rodents at bay. 24 hour vermin patrol. If rats become a problem, dogs are quite handy, I speak from personal experience on a farm.
@Foxglove9634 жыл бұрын
@@solarsailer4166 You are correct. There is written evidence the Princes of Wales held cats to be prized possessions in protecting their granary from rodents.
@maxdecphoenix4 жыл бұрын
@@solarsailer4166 chickens as well. Chickens themselves are omnivores and have a broader diet than cats. Eating all manner of fibrous plant, insect, rodent, reptile or amphibian. A particularly large rat may give them trouble, but i've seen them team up to take one down. But things like roaches, flies, weevils, frogs, etc would be free game. The one drawback of using chickens as pest prevention is that they are diurnal, making them almost entirely inactive and passive at night.
@DanteYewToob5 жыл бұрын
"We have an ARMY!" ... "We have a Shad."
@aramere36505 жыл бұрын
danteelite we have MACHICOLATIONS!!!!
@jamesgarlick45735 жыл бұрын
But what about Dragons?
@tamurkhawaja72795 жыл бұрын
@Jeremy G. Rainthong We have Ser Twenty of House Goodmen stationed at Bolton HQ
@qwuiet84205 жыл бұрын
yeah .... shadman...
@XDKvlogs5 жыл бұрын
The Value of a good Shad can change the tide of any war
@bickson9872 Жыл бұрын
This has to be the best video on Shad’s channel. It’s so informative and unique
@jonnya61074 жыл бұрын
The word "Epic" is lost on this design. I love it! Double Ultra Legendary! Awesome work Shad!
@nickverbree4 жыл бұрын
As a former soldier, I was entirely unsurprised when you said that the soldier's mess was right on top of the stable. Some general would have insisted on putting the troops where it stinks.
@bjornarmar24624 жыл бұрын
At least it wasn't above the shit pit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@1Mutton13 жыл бұрын
stables dont actually stink. Being close to work is more handy I think.
@clymdodds10203 жыл бұрын
But isn’t it also right next to the pub?
@AllNiin3 жыл бұрын
The reason is simple: dont let it stink or every single other soldier will asks who the fuck is the one that was responsible for cleaning the stables Do a poor job at it and well you just have to deal with the garrison
@shok241993 жыл бұрын
What Mutton said. Also, if it doubles as the Inn, visitors can stable their horses then go to their rooms without going outside in winter.
@slightlytwistedagain6 жыл бұрын
As a plumber I'm well impressed with the effort to have proper water storage and sanitation, it's such a simple thing that many game developers simply ignore to install.
@johnchalinder66826 жыл бұрын
Game designers have a delicate balancing act... On one hand, there is the desire for extreme detail... On the other hand, there is gameplay; keeping the game fast and exciting. Too many details can slow down a game. Where you draw the line between detail and gameplay is, of course, up to the sensibilities of those playing the game; and can vary widely.
@rollingthunder10436 жыл бұрын
Also the desire to not have the player's gaming device of choice burst into flame when you load into a detailed cell.
@jakobschoning73556 жыл бұрын
There is no well there, though. Or did I miss something?
@TheRojo3876 жыл бұрын
Pressure is key here. Without it, the plumbing system simply can't deliver its water supply between its ducts. And it turns out, many medieval (and ancient) aqueduct systems lacked proper sanitation, as we know from archaeological info from the Roman republic.
@mennograafmans15956 жыл бұрын
Just look at skyrim. The only places with 'toilets' are Solitude and some banditcamps where they put a bucket somewhere secluded and laid the 'Lusty Argonian Maid' next to it for reasons.
@terezak8603 жыл бұрын
I was working as a guide in the museum placed in former castle, one of my responsibilities was open and close tower. When you are closing tower, you need to go all the way up (to look for visitors) and let me tell you, stairs at the medieval towers are uneven, narrow nightmares. I admire our ancestors to function in these structures on baily basis.
@georgiishmakov95882 жыл бұрын
That's on purpose. One errant twitch and the whole enemy assault party is rolling down Family Guy style.
@luisaymerich967511 ай бұрын
This is the third time I come across uneven stairs used as a defensive feature. There was a KZfaq short describing this feature. Many of the people in the comment section disputed the creator's argument that uneven stairs were done deliberately. I commented that the original fortification of the governor's mansion in the city of San Juan in Puerto Rico included uneven stairs in the oldest towers. To take a tour of the mansion one has to sign a release from liability in case someone trips during the tour.
@kargaroc38610 ай бұрын
While they may have thought of it as a defense feature after it was built, it likely wasn't intentional. Things were just built weird and wonky back then. Those who lived there would've gotten used to it and it would've been second nature to them.
@glorialiedtke8931 Жыл бұрын
The biggest tower looks almost exactly like the one in my hometown. The tower was so large because the lord didn't want the church's tower to be bigger.
@elizataylor1726 Жыл бұрын
Old school dick measuring contest
@Grain_of_wheat8 ай бұрын
Nice
@derelon24 күн бұрын
Have you heard of the tower arms race in the city of Verona?
You sir are a hero. Your tale will be told through the annals of history
@ThisWasWhatIThought5 жыл бұрын
If this is just a lords castle; I can’t wait to see the kings castle.
@kasperjocker3 жыл бұрын
That would be Shads take on Winterfell.
@Throku3 жыл бұрын
Lord is a catch all title, from the honourary courtesy of adressing someone "my lord", all the way to the Lord, as in God. As such it's not a descriptive term either and King or not any owner is lord of their castle(s). What I'm saying is that if thay are the lord of a castle, then they have some other title as well which no doubt will give you some better hint to what kind of castle you'd expect them to have.
@Throku3 жыл бұрын
@@deathisSkele-ton Good grief. There really is no hope for humanity is there?
@trentonios60243 жыл бұрын
@@Throku I will say lord is an actual title in a monarchy, however it is true that most nobility are referred to by lowborn as "my lord", unless you were a knight which you were referred to as sir. But if you were a Baron to King a peasant or servant would refer to you as my lord, or sometimes "my liege".
@Throku3 жыл бұрын
@@trentonios6024 No Lord is not a title in any monachy, it's something anyone get's to label themselves as that has any other title, A Lord is anyone with an award, grant or patent of arms, and that means pretty much anyone that¨'s born in a nobel family. Be they mere knight, or Marquee, or Duke, or just the cousin¨'s nephew of either of the latter.
@Xalerdane9 ай бұрын
I like the idea of isolating the Military, Public, Administrative, Private, Servant, and Utility sections from each other beyond the bare minimum of access points.
@Aiken472 жыл бұрын
I like a lot of Japanese castles, they have a lot of overlapping bottle necks, Osaka has a staging area that can be hidden from attackers and used to route breaches of the frontal attack. If we’ll orchestrated the defending squads could filter through the attackers then press them from behind through the staging area and into the deep water filled moat. Major Japanese castles often utilise zwingers I really like you’re design, I don’t know much about design principles so this has been a great video. I’d love to see you examine castle designs around the world not just European designs, (I’m a new subscriber from FNT, GDay from Adelaide)
@SRFriso944 жыл бұрын
I can see one benefit of living there: just by virtue of being there, you get no chance to skip leg day.
@justacommentercommenting3 жыл бұрын
leg day everyday
@donflamingo7952 жыл бұрын
Even the princess get legs day everyday.
@roninanbu.5 жыл бұрын
nobody: Shad: 3 drawbridges, 8 portcullises, a zwinger, and a warwolf equivalent, just to be safe.
@bjornarmar24624 жыл бұрын
Bruh I don't even have a home-defense shotgun yet. Need Shad in my life.
@MaxenceBerrier3 жыл бұрын
@@bjornarmar2462 do u americans really need a home defense shotgun that bad ?
@bjornarmar24623 жыл бұрын
Maxence yes. Minimum.
@thethirdsicily48023 жыл бұрын
@@MaxenceBerrier at minimum your average american needs at least 2 home defense shotguns
@MilitaryHistory13 жыл бұрын
oh and we will make the final gate out of steel
@neofd32232 жыл бұрын
Awesome job Shad! This castle is awesome!
@foadrightnow57253 жыл бұрын
That was simply THE quickest 45-minute long video I've ever viewed! I'm not kidding or exaggerating! I was like...NO! It's over already?! That was absolutely fascinating, interesting, informative, and entertaining! If I were a billionaire, you would most definitely be a consultant on my castle/fortress/palace/evil lair/fortified compound design team, for damn sure! Well Done! And thanks for creating and sharing!
@iansullivan97385 жыл бұрын
He would be the best and worst person to play Minecraft with.
@arowan81705 жыл бұрын
or medieval engineers...
@mxri20195 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of me tbh. All I do is make fantasy stuff and 70% castles
@paddlesaddlelad18815 жыл бұрын
my recommendations thought this is a minecraft video
@alexmorrison34425 жыл бұрын
Watching this video specifically for minecraft architecture.
@SininStyle5 жыл бұрын
@@alexmorrison3442 Was just thinking I wish I had more free time, I would love to build this in minecraft. Havent touched minecraft in so long, this is so tempting.
@akaviral54766 жыл бұрын
"Shad's First Word.. A Story" "Shad: Muh..mmm.. Shad's Mother: Oh my God, he's gonna say ma! He loves me! Shad, though more determined: Ma..maaa..maachhicolations! Shad's Mother: ???? Shad: DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, MOTHER. MACHICOLATIONS. THEY ARE CREATION ITSELF." To be continued...
@mayalackman75816 жыл бұрын
Aidan Piwnicki 😄😄😄😄😄
@mattaffenit98986 жыл бұрын
Aidan Piwnicki 😆
@mattaffenit98986 жыл бұрын
Aidan Piwnicki It turns out MACHICOLATIONS are the source of all life.
@darkrite90006 жыл бұрын
Simply glorious (makes me wonder if a child's first word, or one of them, is that then how angry would the mother be at the father, haha).
@sambeaty42103 жыл бұрын
@@mattaffenit9898 Machicolations are the powerhouse of the castle
@adamariscolon4764 Жыл бұрын
when i first saw honorguard in your winterfell video, my jaw dropped because honorguard looks EXACTLY like the castle i built in my mind for a book that i am writing. this is such a beautiful castle. thank you for your time and research going into this!
@Nephelangelo9 ай бұрын
Someone needs to make a supercut of every time Shad has ever said “castle”.
@pahlavi53126 жыл бұрын
When I got into this video, I thought: 45 minutes? That's a long one. 45 minutes later: It's over?? Time flies when you're having fun :)
@MarkChilcote5 жыл бұрын
It was the same for me!!!
@LarryGarfieldCrell6 жыл бұрын
This was the nerdiest 45 minutes I've spent this year, and that's saying something! Nice work, Shad. I'd love to see it rendered in an FPS engine so we could walk through it.
@Conserpov6 жыл бұрын
Just 45 minutes? I had to pause and rewind back and forth to examine it for ~2 hours
@keithstone8693Ай бұрын
This is still one of my very favorite Shad Vids. I return to it all the time. It's like ASMR for me lol
@justthinkingoutloud25383 жыл бұрын
The most of the additions and tweaks to the castle made since the last video seem to be things that really could have been done to it if it was real, so the original could have been what it looked like before receiving those upgrades in the story. Awesome job, this will serve as reference for me in thinking about fantasy castles in the future! Thank you for your service to the internet!
@ZendikarMage427506 жыл бұрын
I could honestly watch a full series about this castle alone; can't wait to hear more about it!
@davidhawkes64566 жыл бұрын
Next episode: the moat of Honorguard and the Honorcarp therin
@casimiriii59416 жыл бұрын
David Cox don't forget the killing fields. 😆😆😆
@terapode6 жыл бұрын
Yeah... me too!!
@jamesbernadette62166 жыл бұрын
You do mean; can't wait to *read* more about it? ;)
@ZacksRockingLifestyle5 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@rossgirven51635 жыл бұрын
Wow. To break into this castle you are really put through the zwinger
@JoeDonleyWrittenWord5 жыл бұрын
I scrolled down specifically to look for this comment.
@faytbouleouve98115 жыл бұрын
I see a major weakness to Shad's impregnable castle. Plug up the toiletries drainage system.
@noahtackett62645 жыл бұрын
@Backstage Bum you never know what secret passageways would be in there
@JonatasAdoM4 жыл бұрын
@@noahtackett6264 Any passage out also works in. Even secret aqueducts were found and blocked/poisoned.
@dr.spaghetti19734 жыл бұрын
Backstage Bum Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the burning birds thing was from some Kievan Queen, who’s also known for locking some dignitaries in a burning building. Still, the use of disease is a good idea, and knocking down the Don-Jon (if that’s how you spell it) with trebuchets and/or catapults could cause extensive damage to the keep and it’s food stores.
@exposingpowerfullieslivest5082 Жыл бұрын
this was really fun to watch, its awesome to see this guy so passionate about his designs and about castles. wholesome.
@kandie57513 ай бұрын
This video is genuinely so helpful for a writer like myself. A friend of mine who is helping me make a medieval-fantasy castle sent me this, and I cannot that both of you enough. We are building it in Minecraft (as one does) and intend to write a novel set in said castle. Also, you have an extremely calming voice!
@justrobin81556 жыл бұрын
The fact that you have some background in construction explains a lot. Thanks for this! I'll be saving it to check my work when I design castles for RPGs.
@adamblakeslee53016 жыл бұрын
If there's one flaw in the neigh perfect defense of Honorguard it's the first and third gatehouses. Note, that's one flaw because it's only a weakpoint when taken in tandem. The first gatehouse is low enough that you could use siege engines to get on top of it. Not easily, mind, since you're going to need something like a 5 story siege tower with a 20 foot gangplank. After that you could batter down the door to the 3rd gatehouse or use siege ladders to get on top of it. Granted, you're still piling up the corpses of your comrades to use for cover against two flanking towers but it brings the difficulty from "Haha, no." to "You want to spend HOW MANY men?"
@integrity11 Жыл бұрын
12 AM and I'm suddenly watching, in detail, how to build the best medieval castle possible... God, I love the internet!
@ThefineartofdistractionАй бұрын
WOW WOW WOW, so much thought & attention to detail in this castle, I’ll tell you what, if they built castles in today’s times, 100% this would be what every king/lord would definitely be looking for, you would be one of the richest people in the land, cause your reputation for designing the best castles would be the talk of the town. Well done sir, you’ve created one of the best castle designs ever
@lukasschrage89356 жыл бұрын
As a German and fan of medieval history as well as your content, I am glad you added the Zwinger. Also: False floors? Man and I thought this castle couldn't get any more awesome!
@CommandLineVulpine6 жыл бұрын
I'd hate to be a servant there, I'd get lost in the Keep for sure "What do you mean there's no access from here to there?!"
@GaborSzabo7476 жыл бұрын
I'm wondering how many keys this castle needs to operate :)
@lvd81226 жыл бұрын
Lance Elliott id love it, but only because I really enjoy climbing:D
@Amokra6 жыл бұрын
Lance Elliott you should see aircraft carriers the bulkhead makes you have to go up and down to get to different sections 😃
@The214thRabidFangirl6 жыл бұрын
Amokra Aircraft carriers is exactly where my brain went when I read the first comment.
@elvinadhludhlu53806 жыл бұрын
Gabor Szabo - Mannny
@DanDauzacker3 жыл бұрын
As a Architect who works with SketchUp this is a Marvel! And the work you put on details is amazing.
@mytyang12484 ай бұрын
Man this channel is such a gold mine for fantasy writters i love it
@fahdimtiaz75236 жыл бұрын
If there isn't at least one instance of a character screaming "MACHICULATIONS!!!!!" in the book I'll be very disappointed.
@onatgz6 жыл бұрын
i love how the shields in the guard rooms have your coat of arms lol.
@ryanaegis3544 Жыл бұрын
Your top-floor ballroom reminded me of the ballroom/throne room at Kroneborg, Denmark. Top floor, 20 foot ceiling with massive exposed beams, floor to ceiling windows, 20 yards wide and probably 60 yards long. Just massive.
@RobertsMind Жыл бұрын
It could be fun to work together and create this castle in Unreal Engine so you can actually walk through it and even make cinematics with it. Great job so far.
@jinenjuce6 жыл бұрын
As a civil engineer, I think the design of the bathrooms and waste management was most impressive, given the time period this would have been built lol
@DoomRater6 жыл бұрын
Bathrooms on every floor like that is a serious luxury.
@keiyakins5 жыл бұрын
I like the sort of 'hard fantasy' stylings here. It's a functional, practical castle, with a couple embellishments to look awesome. That's honestly what we probably would have built had we gotten a bit more architecture practice under our belt before artillery obsoleted most medieval fortifications
@flowenfan96784 жыл бұрын
In the end of the day, our ability to build will always be matched by our ability to knock shit down.
@kargaroc38610 ай бұрын
I mean, nowadays something the size of a fridge can turn anything within a mile of it into high energy plasma, its so lopsided in favor of the attackers its not funny. The attackers generally have entropy on their side.
@kyleklunk67772 жыл бұрын
This design would have probably made you an instant MVP for a king back then. Wonderful! Damn
@glynnporrino56342 жыл бұрын
That actually could be the most defenceable castle design I've ever seen and I've designed many!! Bravo Sir Shad!!
@torjones17016 жыл бұрын
Can you please make a video on your design process? Did you start on the inside and work your way out, or with the outer walls and work your way in? How did you decide what rooms you wanted and which ones you didn't need in your castle?
@TheWampam6 жыл бұрын
From my experience working inside to outside is the easier one since you can first design the rooms you need and than build the castle around it. While doing it the other way I got many problems with using all the room I got or having not enough room in other places. (i.e for staircases)
@AsserKortteenniemi5 жыл бұрын
I can't help but admire the level of love, dedication, thought and detail you've put into this design. Absolutely brilliant. If i were to build myself a castle, I would definetly hire you to be one of the designers.
@Taig32 Жыл бұрын
Would absolutely love you to do a video about a hypothetical enemy possibly could take this castle. Massive fan of the channel - keep it up.
@paddock.corbin3 жыл бұрын
In your story telling, make sure that you include in honor guard’s history these little changes you made (aside from the oversights). There should be a telling of its history that while it was under construction it was attacked (maybe once or twice). That earthen mound to get past the first gate house is one important part. An attack that used this will have made it necessary to build those other walls. Same for the wooden floor in the keep being changed to stone. These little changes can be included in historical notes of changes to the castle.
@techwizpc44845 жыл бұрын
Export this castle to Unity and do a first person walkthrough.
@koat18775 жыл бұрын
Was going to say the same, or one of the elder scroll games.
@lonestarwolfentertainment71844 жыл бұрын
Koa T Honorguard would fit in quite well in High Rock
@demoulius15294 жыл бұрын
@@shalvaquthelia8414 you got my vote. How many do you need? D:
@ulrichleukam10684 жыл бұрын
@@shalvaquthelia8414 did you make it? please DM me
@Niloc_3 жыл бұрын
@@shalvaquthelia8414 did you? :)
@somerton43836 жыл бұрын
Meanwhilst in Castle Honorguard, master builder doubting his life's work. _"If dragons attack we cannot hold. We have to prepare for the worst. Thine enemy force is strong, my liege, machicolations 'tis required"_
@LightBrand3 жыл бұрын
Someone probably mentioned but the chapel and transitory hall to the great hall is one brick through the window away from the otherwise isolated soldier/rampart portion of the castle that was intentionally isolated. So if saboteurs/ninjas were able to infiltrate into the bailey, the game plan would be to go up the donjon stair to the side of the keep's drawbridge entrance, get through that door (assuming it's easier than the main draw bridge leading into the kill room). Run through and go up the stairwell into the battlement at 37:22 and throw a brick into the chapel and into the keep.
@colinrasmussen93654 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful. I would love to read a book with Honorguard in it.
@tylerwash25866 жыл бұрын
The most dazzling castle this side of Minas Tirith, for sure. Amazing aesthetics and relentless attention to practicality. I'd love to live there as much as I'd dread trying to attack it.
@MNfishes6 жыл бұрын
I can't wait to read your book.
@SKULLkidDEATHOMATIC6 ай бұрын
I'm so happy to have found all this. I'm currently planning a fantasy game with a magic castle. But planning the castle is probably one of my biggest struggles. This will help me a lot.
@loganboehnlein2738Ай бұрын
Unironically, this is the best Minecraft tutorial video ever
@jakestone78545 жыл бұрын
just had to say a thumbs up to having all the stairs go the correct direction. People don't realize the direction of the stairs was also a defensive measure. the only time the direction was reversed was if the defensive direction was down, which was rare. Makes it so when you are attacking vs. defending it would be difficult to strike the opponent seeing as most people are right handed. I think this is one reason why they demonized left handed people.
@NickGreyden5 жыл бұрын
It was what bothered me about the zwinger. It turns the wrong way lol
@DavidPokora5 жыл бұрын
@@NickGreyden it does not matter there, it is so wide that you can swing a sword none the less
@goldflame33905 жыл бұрын
I really do not think the common perception of right and left handed people is caused by the direction of the staircase. The right hand/left hand superstition is responsible for the assumption that all soldiers are right handed.
@greatmightypanda6 жыл бұрын
It feels good to be vindicated that even if not for exactly the reasons I argued, you didn't move the granary. Even with a trebuchet twice the size of Warwolf they would struggle to get anywhere near damaging that granary, and it makes so much more sense for the sake of practicality to put supplies central. Love the design.
@shadiversity6 жыл бұрын
Thanks mate, I love seeing you guys thinking about all the different pros and cons.
@donnieg.69762 жыл бұрын
One of the most detail walkthroughs of a castle (real or imagined). I've ever seen. Excellent video.
@carso15004 жыл бұрын
Coming from the vídeo of shad presenting his terrain where he plans to build this castle
@thebelgianlemon68154 жыл бұрын
I don't think the castle he'll build will be a big as this one.
@carso15004 жыл бұрын
@@thebelgianlemon6815 are you... are you understimating the power of our lord chadiversity
@thebelgianlemon68154 жыл бұрын
@@carso1500 Listen, first of Shad is not a chad. Second of this much stone for a castle this size would already cost millions, let alone the costs of building it.
@carso15004 жыл бұрын
@@thebelgianlemon6815 heresy, Shad is the chadest of chads, and money is of little concern, it will arrive, eventually
@JacobGrim3 жыл бұрын
@@thebelgianlemon6815 false
@selenagamya16126 жыл бұрын
Somebody needs to recreate this in a videogame-like environment so it can be properly explored. I would love to just wander around in there for hours and get lost.
@PrimordialNightmare6 жыл бұрын
Castle walking simulator. That'd be so great!
@Obstinate286 жыл бұрын
If I had the time, I would love to make this in the Unity Game Engine and make a simple POV agent so you could walk around it and fly around it.
@snesguy91766 жыл бұрын
Quick, some one mod it in to skyrim
@torctorctorc6 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I was just thinking the exact thing. This would make for an awesome map for a Thief fan mission. I hope someone gets around to making one
@Morphimus6 жыл бұрын
There's a game called medieval engineers that might be able to do a half-decent recreation.
@neurotoksyn6 жыл бұрын
fantastic design, everything seems well thought out and it may be one of the most impregnable castles I have ever seen, sometimes I think hollywood and game companies should just ask you for consulting on their designs because my god man, I am in awe.
@carbon12556 жыл бұрын
He forgot one thing though, this castle is extremely easy to climb. Render is not just for decoration!
@neurotoksyn6 жыл бұрын
I'm curious to know how you find it easy to climb? you can't easily march ladders up the hill, nor can towers be rolled up with any measure of effectiveness, I suppose he could have put a moat or a series of ditches around it to make it harder to assail but even if the assailants got ladders on the first wall the second interior wall would have archers stationed to pick them off as they climb over. Then assuming they actually got a foothold on a section of the outer wall they'd have to carry ladders up the ladders to try and climb the second wall all while being shot at or having rocks tossed down on them, burning oil, etc. The more I think on it though there should probably be ditches, bitches love ditches. This castle would have to be sieged by a massive force capable of overwhelming the defenders or the only other feasible option is to starve them out, assailing the walls half-heartedly will only result in utter defeat. (which was usually the case with sieges anyways)
@johnfrancisdoe15636 жыл бұрын
Holland He is clearly referring to directly climbing the walls themselves, no ladders or siege engines. Because a bare stone wall is supposedly a lot less slippery than a plastered white wall.
@christaspirit Жыл бұрын
This was super useful, one of my stories has a character living in an old castle. And I love the design of Honorguard!
@krillanr Жыл бұрын
I wish I could leave another like. I watched this video when it was new and I've watched it multiple times since. Love it good sir.
@Norkans56 жыл бұрын
I don't even need the headphone warning, i know you well enough Shad. Great Video, nice details and very well thought out. Your castle videos are my favorites.
@Eleolune6966 жыл бұрын
I really love the fact that you exist and make videos.
@woody2shoes647 ай бұрын
Now we need a first person VR walkthrough of this castle which goes inside all of the buildings!
@williamsmith17412 жыл бұрын
I've re-watched this video maybe a dozen times because I just love the detail. I've only got 4 critiques, but the ONLY real one is that at (37:17), you say there's no access to the main keep from the upper battlements. I'm afraid that there is at least 2 access points. The large windows for the chapel and the transitory hall between the chapel and the main hall. It would be great to see an update for this video, to incorporate anything you might have learned since making this video and then make the castle keep somewhat bigger and the castle footprint a lot bigger. This gets to the 2nd, minor, critique. Honorguard is a very big keep, and I would imagine that it would require just an a$$-ton of servants, a lot of whom would have to be available almost constantly, many more than what your servants' quarters seem likely to be able to house (just consider how many live-in servants were required for homes like in Downton Abbey, which are definitely much smaller). I know that some servants might live in the village outside the castle, but that's a long distance from the village (longer if you consider going uphill through a winding zvinger). So, I think you might either want to modify the keep to at least double the size of the servants' quarters or enlarge it some to make some more room. The 3rd, minor, critique is the same as the 2nd, but as it relates to the soldiers. I might be wrong on this, but it just doesn't seem like you've got enough living space for the number of soldiers that a castle like Honorguard would require. You also probably don't want to house your soldiers in the same kind of barracks like soldiers in boot camp, or homeless people in a shelter, just with cots that are right next to each other. You'd probably want to have a barracks more like a college dormitory, I would think, pretty small and spare of a lot of comforts, but just enough for one person (or two sharing) to call their own. My last minor critique/suggestion would be to move the chapel out of the castle, which I assume serves the lord's family, people living in the castle, and possibly the village and surrounding area. I know it's convenient to have the chapel in the castle so that the lord's family doesn't have to go outside when it's cold just to go to service, but you're giving up a lot of square footage which you spent a lot of time and money making very secure, which a chapel doesn't really have to be. Plus, if the chapel is meant to serve the larger community and not just people living in the castle, that's going to be A LOT of foot traffic in and out of the castle with EVERY mass and sermon, and a lot of opportunities for thieves, crazies, or other nefarious individuals to try to sneak into the castle for whatever reason. That means guards have to be pulled away from regular duties frequently just to monitor traffic in and out of the chapel. If you didn't want to enlarge the keep, I'd put a proper church inside the bailey, turn the castle's chapel space into a smaller ball room (smaller in keeping with the Lord's family's more auster beliefs (no white washing)), raise the roof on the old ball room so that it can be partitioned into two separate floors with multiple small rooms on each floor, each being a bedroom for one or two individuals, with soldiers on the lower floor and servants on the upper one. That would also be more in keeping with how servants would be housed, higher up in a structure and having a lot more stairs to climb. That would also let you house officers and higher ranked soldiers inside the keep, giving them status and reinforcing the division between officers and common soldiers, which is important. Just watch the movie Master and Commander.
@martijnvanweele62046 жыл бұрын
A character I'm playing in D&D has an old family castle that he's trying to retake as his personal quest. Your videos have helped me greatly in designing that castle.
@carbon12556 жыл бұрын
I know you are not a climbing expert, but castles were likely rendered with plaster because they are very easy to climb. You might think a sheer wall would be enough, but only a few millilitres is needed for an effective hold. Not only that, but plaster waterproofs a castle wall, and prevents freeze cracks, from water in the brickwork freezing and cracking the stone and mortar. Also, without plaster, a castle would need repointing every few years else ANYONE could climb it. Certainly weather causes a lot of damage to buildings if the temperature goes below 4*c which iirc is the temperature water begins to expand again. Seriously, please don't dismiss out of hand the defensive properties of plastered walls. My fiancee actually showed me how easy the walls on castles are to climb, she climbed halfway up Conwy castle's wall with no difficulty and no difficulty ahead (no climbing chalk or mat with us so it was too dangerous to go all the way up... and we did not have permission) And the wall we picked was no slouch either, it was a well restored piece of wall. I will also say even a perfect wall will be very vulnerable where towers meet the walls. if there is anything like a 90 degree interior angle in the wall, there does not have to be holds, there will be enough grip to chimney up the whole thing. And if you are not yet convinced, the Japanese sent whole armies up the walls by hand - you might say their walls are easier because they are sloped - the truth is somewhere inbetween, they are harder to climb than western castles, because they are specifically designed to make climbing harder, they have smooth plaster at the top, they actually curve up to near vertical, and have overhanging roofs and completely enclosed castles and towers. Oh, and waaay more machiculations. One easily implemented design feature would be to smooth out some of the harder corners with a 45 degree angle, this would make your castle much harder to climb. Also if you are not rendering your castle, don't use brickwork in the style of a de plastered castle! make that cut stonework really sharp and smooth, and have flush pointing. No sense in all that defence if people can zip up your walls in a minute or two is there?
@markleggett97146 жыл бұрын
Lubricate (oil, muddy water) the wall and try climb with battle gear.
@casimiriii59416 жыл бұрын
One word, MATRICUUUUUUUUULATIONS!
@jacolitethepumpkin7656 жыл бұрын
If someone is climbing the wall, wouldn’t the Guards just be able to use the Machiculations to shoot arrows at them? Or drop rocks on their head?
@casimiriii59416 жыл бұрын
Jacolite The Pumpkin it's still a good point. Plus what if the person scaling the wall has cover fire or the cover of darkness to aid him. Or what if the attackers strike one side of the castle, to distract, causing honourgaurds men to concentrate on that side, while men scale the opposite side of the castle? I, myself, was thinking of using just such a tactic. Building a massive earthen ramp that would allow my troops to simply march over the walls. While another portion of my army, under the cover of darkness, tunnels under the walls.
@jacolitethepumpkin7656 жыл бұрын
David Craft I’m not disagreeing, I am merely pointing out that it wouldn’t be as easy as he makes it out to be. Climbing a wall would also limit the amount of troops that could actually climb, and even if they do get up they will most likely be outnumbered. As for tunneling, that is a very noisy and long process. I think the people in Honourguard would figure it out before the attacking force has a chance to pull it off. As for the earthen ramp, it’s hard to build a ramp if you’re being buffeted by arrowfire and a ballista
@chemicalmix3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely extraordinary. What a fantastic build, and a really informative video.
@geekgeekrickson2604 жыл бұрын
This is one of the nicest castles I've ever seen! With some modern amenities, I'd love to live there!
@justrnfr5 жыл бұрын
King of Honorguard: HAH i'd like to see anyone get through these amazing defences, we're finally safe from any enemy King of Honorguard *get's killed by poison*
@AtaMarKat4 жыл бұрын
“Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.”
@demetriblackheart44974 жыл бұрын
Coward. Smart but still.
@odd-ysseusdoesstuff63474 жыл бұрын
But what if we apply a tall siege tower and use it as a platform to launch Da VInci Gliders? And go OVER the walls?
@shootymcshootfacekoff79723 жыл бұрын
Cough cough Soviet time travelers cough cough
@Zenden1ST3 жыл бұрын
gets killed by stinky assassins that climbed through the gravity latrines
@kirbymarchbarcena6 жыл бұрын
You have to be the architect for those castles. It ain't so grand if not made by Shad.
@maximus28746 жыл бұрын
kirby march Barcena yeah because in modern german to force someone to dl sth. means jmd. zwingen etwas zu tun
@averyclarkston49563 жыл бұрын
14:15 is gonna be my ringtone I swear. This makes me laugh so hard.
@xdragonhaterx45793 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see another video like this. It's really informative and fun.
@AD-hr8sg5 жыл бұрын
For the servant's entrance room with the false floor, you need to make the interior door flush to the inside walls of the false floor room. With the current design as seen in 38:45, if a considerably large army somehow managed to breach the bailey and siege the keep (and more than likely they'd bust down the servant's quarter's door first), then the first few sorry sods would certainly fall to their demise, but it wouldn't be too difficult for an army with siege equipment and siege engineers to take planks and build a makeshift bridge to the stone lip of the 2nd interior door. At which point, the servant's quarters once again becomes an area of defensive compromise. This potential problem could be absolved by simply making the interior doors flush against the wall, thus eliminating that lip.
@TheDrewker5 жыл бұрын
Could be *solved. Not sure why you added the "ab"
@goobins_jr4 жыл бұрын
Drew Kosonen does it matter that much?
@rikwelgraaf6015 жыл бұрын
So your castle is impenetrable?....BUT WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?!!!!
@drspartan0485 жыл бұрын
"Curiosities on the far side of the world are no threat to us."
@eldrago195 жыл бұрын
Yeah. That was my response after hearing his comments on catapults.
@thejohnhopkinscompany95995 жыл бұрын
Ask Black Harren.
@rikwelgraaf6015 жыл бұрын
@Backstage Bum so true
@francreeps45095 жыл бұрын
And witches flying on brooms, fairies, harpies, and basically anything that can fly
@AaronSKZ3 жыл бұрын
I watch this like once a month. I miss your castle content. Would love to see another build/tour like this.
@magnuseriksson18222 жыл бұрын
Jesus H. Christ, now THAT's epic! Hats off to you, kind sir, for this truly is a masterpiece, and I can only imagine how much effort did you put into this castle.
@danieltaylor55426 жыл бұрын
Those exposed beams also make a great place to hang the banners of your vanquished foes.
@ZGuy0fSci6 жыл бұрын
Or ya know, _your vanquished foes._ ^~^
@manybuckets9696 жыл бұрын
Or the bodies
@murdomaclachlan6 жыл бұрын
This is amazing and incredibly helpful as a learning tool for someone wanting to write a story that's fantasy, but grounded in historical medieval realism and practicality.
@MrAwawe3 жыл бұрын
32:25 "long wooden paddle-like thing" a shovel, Shad, that's called a shovel.
@daniell14832 жыл бұрын
I really loved this, but I noticed that something was missing: decoration! The first video on the channel I watched was one describing how castles would have things like carpets, tapestries, etc. At least for the private quarters or something. Also, I'd love to know, how many troops do you think could be stationed in Honorguard?
@Waffles9352 жыл бұрын
Yes I would have also added a couple trees there too