Quote Originally Posted by Daveybaby View Post
If i was gonna go to the trouble of building a moat around my fortress, i'd probably build it deeper than knee deep. Seriously, what contracters did they use? Went with the cheapest, i bet.
According to Togukawa Ieyasu. He reprimanded his son Hidetada for initially making the moat of Edo castle too deep. I guess the idea was not to make them impassable, but rather slow the passing enemy down in order to make them better targets for Yumi and Teppo.