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Every medieval town has its main square and many roads paved in flagstone. Especially the marketplace.
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In medieval times, most of the population lived and worked on the farmland surrounding the town. Farming was a full-time job. Cottages housed workers and their friends and families who where eating, sleeping and spending free time together in their simple one-roomed households.
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There's only one place you can go to when your sword gets broken in a battle or when your horse needs a new pair of hues, and that place is Blacksmith’s Forge. The blacksmith is constantly working to patch up damaged armor plates and shields or to make new weapons and everyday tools. When you enter the town, you can hear him pounding with his hammer, making a truly powerful sound. Townsfolk are very proud to have a trustworthy and skillful blacksmith.
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This luxurious house is where the town's well known merchant spends his days in peace and welfare. Townsfolk know him as a fair trader and a tolerant man who is always kind and ready to help people in trouble. In his shop, placed on the ground floor, you can find everything you need be it food, tools or even medicine.
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Water is a source of life and often a scarce commodity. There is a belief that a wish can be made in a well. Townsfolk believe in it's healing properties.
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The growing economy of the town called for a masonry tower mill. The tower mill was more expensive to build then the post mill, but more stable source of power was needed.In contrast to the post mill, only the cap of the tower mill needs to be turned into the wind, so the main structure can be made much taller, allowing the sails to be made longer, which enables them to provide useful work even in low winds.
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Houses in the medieval towns reflected the rank of those living in them. Although stone building was encouraged, expense meant that most houses were built of wood. Those built of stone, were the homes of the rich people such as merchants and renown craftsmen.
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Town Walls are a necessity for town to survive in medieval world of invasion and conquest. Wealthy towns are enclosed by protective walls and the only access to the town is regulated through Town Gate. Adding the section A together with section B will determine the length of the wall. You can use as many sections as you like. To avoid repetition we designed two versions of section A with slightly different textures and details.
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Imagine that after a long exhausting travel or even after a long battle you enter a town in search of rest and there is nobody to offer you a decent meal and a place to sleep. That is a bad news indeed! That is why every town, no matter how big it is, has an Inn. A warm, cosy place where everybody is welcome, a perfect place where you can put all your worries aside, eat a good meal and rest till the morning.
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Houses in the medieval towns reflected the rank of those living in them. Although stone building was encouraged, expense meant that most houses were built of wood. Those built of stone, were the homes of the rich people such as merchants and renown craftsmen.
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Houses in the medieval towns reflected the rank of those living in them. Although stone building was encouraged, expense meant that most houses were built of wood. Those built of stone, were the homes of the rich people such as merchants and renown craftsmen.
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Many Londoners from the 1665, the Black Plague period would remember a lot of these roaming around the city. Bring out the dead! The undertaker would yell, while moving the corpses to the outskirts of the city to be buried in nameless graves.
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There is no complete communication system without a bridge. Laying foundations for this beautiful arched bridge where the river flows all year round was not an easy task, but the town's masons managed to built it proving them selves to be skillful engineers.
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Houses in the medieval towns reflected the rank of those living in them. Although stone building was encouraged, expense meant that most houses were built of wood. Those built of stone, were the homes of the rich people such as merchants and renown craftsmen.
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Medieval towers were defensive structures usually made of stone. Often they included battlements and arrow loops. Arrow loops were vertical slits in the wall where archers from the inside shot arrows through at the attackers, but made it extremely difficult for attackers to get many arrows back through at the defenders. A Battlement comprises a defensive low wall between chest-height and head-height, in which rectangular gaps or indentations occur at intervals to allow for the discharge of arrows or other missiles from within the defences. Towers can be stand alone structures or parts of defensive walls.
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In times of war medieval towns were the central focus of armed conflict and would often be sacked and ruined in defeat. War, depopulation and disease lead to ruined structures. These buildings were becoming progressively derelict over time due to weathering and scavenging.
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Town Walls are a necessity for town to survive in medieval world of invasion and conquest. Wealthy towns are enclosed by protective walls and the only access to the town is regulated through Town Gate. Adding the section A together with section B will determine the length of the wall. You can use as many sections as you like. To avoid repetition we designed two versions of section A with slightly different textures and details. Note that the section B is always connected to section A or ending sections E and F.
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If you need to create a rural setting on your battle field these hay stacks are a perfect. Some are made in a way to fit in the corner or next to a wall.
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The center of a town. A place where people meet to discuss daily events, to trade, make deals of every kind, or even gossip maybe. They are usually made of stone tiles and thus they last for many generations.
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This nice kit is suitable for various games and almost any historic period, be it dark age, medieval, western, WW, etc.
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Noble Townhouse represents the city or town residence of a noble or wealthy family. Townhouses of the rich are bigger in size and more elaborate than those of regular townsfolk. By their residence nobles prevented the town from becoming merely a trading centre or an aggregate of merchants. They kept the citizens in touch with the rest of the kingdom. They made the people understand that they belong to their Realm.
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The consumption of fish was an important part of life in the medieval period. The Fisherman provided food as a commodity and thus sustained the survival of townsfolk. The work would begin at sunrise as the boat would depart to cast lines and nets into river and sea.
