Bastion PC

A bastion is an angular structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of an artillery fortification. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and also the adjacent bastions.^[1] It is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries. Bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defense in the age of gunpowder artillery compared with the medieval fortifications they replaced.

In contrast to typical late medieval towers, bastions (apart from early examples) were flat sided rather than curved. This eliminated dead ground making it possible for the defenders to fire upon any point directly in front of the bastion.

MINIMUM

Windows 98/2000/ME/XP

Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor

256MB RAM

2GB Hard Disk Space

Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card

DirectX Compatible Sound Card

DirectX 9

MAXIMUM

Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)

Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent

3GB System RAM (High)

30 GB Hard dDisk Space

nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card

Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live

DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11