My thinking is that surely being able to be seen from a distance away isn’t an advantage.
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Look up to someone on a balcony. You only see their head and maybe their upper torso. They see your entire body however, and it’s harder to find cover from something above.
Projectiles have potential energy when shot from uphill to downhill, they’re going to go further than if they were shot on flat ground. You also need more energy to fight gravity and reach an elevated target.
You can’t pour boiling oil upward. At least not as easily as you would downward. Gravity assist.
And it’s tiring to run uphill and you don’t want to be tired when you’re going to have to fight for your life in melee.
It’s more tiring to swing a sword upward than downward due to gravity. Again you don’t want to be tired and be easier to kill.
If yotur downhill the easiest target is your head so you’re going to suffer more grievous wounds on average.
It’s not always best (especially with modern weaponry), but more often than not, it is.
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