Land Fortifications: Hamlet Fort

This is an addendum video to my earlier Imperial Hamlet video uploads (youtu.be/kSTvhcvtceM) & (youtu.be/azL7dDmqhvc).

The initial idea behind this fort, was a fortified gateway.
As a guarded entryway into the Hamlet.
But as with all things I start in design development, they have a strange way of ballooning in scale, scope & details. Haha ...

Let's talk about the walls first. The adjacent Hamlet's perimeter walls were a pointy hybrid of stone & palisade.
I did not want the full stone look for a pastoral hamlet, too austere.
But a pure palisade wall looked too flimsy for a Crown domain. Hence the mixed style design.
How'd this translated into the fort's design?
Well I slapped on a mixture of palisade & core logs onto the fort's stone walls, in keeping with the rustic wooden theme of the adjacent Hamlet.
And the wall walk (chemin de ronde) itself extends all the way to the Citadel castle nearby.

I knew I wanted a tall tower gateway. As a high focal point visible even from the Hamlet.
Similar to some of the gate towers in central European towns.
The fort plan itself is very simple, just a flat square design with 4 corner low towers.
With some barrack buildings, minor workshop and storage facilities.
I figure the Hamlet might need some local maritime protection.
So there's a naval pier for warships, with mini-blockhouse coastal battery at the end.

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