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If the wall were high, there might be fifteen or twenty men behind him on the ladder, but he would still be alone, at the top of the ladder. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 44, Sentence #3)

I then turned about and made my way back to the ditch and tunnel, to return to Mytilene. Attacks Diminish; Unrest in the Enemy Camp; The Most Dangerous Enemy I, with two others, with the long, stout forked stick, caught an upright of the ladder and thrust it back, several feet, where it wavered, and then tipped backward, and men, crying out, leapt free or fell backward. When an attacker climbs a ladder, he is, in a sense, not only precariously vulnerable, with narrow footing, clinging to the ladder, and managing a weapon, or shield, but alone. If the wall were high, there might be fifteen or twenty men behind him on the ladder, but he would still be alone, at the top of the ladder. The first man on the ladder is always alone. The walls of Mytilene, a town on Chios, were far from the high, thick walls of an Ar or Turia, but the dangers and principles of this form of warfare were quite similar. The defenders not only have height and can strike both downward and horizontally, and are protected by the wall, but they can fight side by side. - (Avengers of Gor)