Fuse lit.
Another thunderous crack split the air.
A second building folded inward, its interior collapsing into a cloud of dust and falling masonry. The recoil launched him backward again, over the wall, vanishing from Marwen's sight.
A moment later, he bounced back up.
Again.
And again.
And this exact scene played over a hundred times simultaneously.
This was the dwarven solution.
When the barrier of their targeted settlement fell, and the walls were taken, they did not abandon their artillery outside the walls, nor did they burden themselves with hauling the full siege mounts up the walls.
Instead, they turned the conquered outside region into a support platform.
Trampoline nets caught recoil. Grapples retrieved gunners. Cannons became mobile. And the defenders became trapped inside their own settlement.
Why not just continue shooting from outside? After all, with the barrier down, they could just angle the artillery and shoot inside.
Multiple reasons.
