If your castle is under siege, remember that pouring boiling oil on assailants isn't the best choice : oil is expensive and valuable for other uses.
Boiling water is efficient enough (in the premise where you have a decent access to water)
Corn was a new world crop and Europeans didn’t find the new world until Columbus in 1492, so how could a Scottish king have corn husks in 1315? I’d guess “corn” was probably referring to “barley corn” which was a term referring to the grain of barley so they probably used barley straw.
0:26 the illustration and narration is misleading. They used hay, i.e. the cereal crop use of the word "corn". Not maize as it did not exist in Europe at this time.
Thank you so much! This will completely change the way I besiege Medieval castles.
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Boiling water is efficient enough (in the premise where you have a decent access to water)
Edward Longshanks: haha, that’s cute. Where did I park my Warwolf / Lupe de Guerre?