Fortified defending position

[vasilisguru]

I wish I could make my own defending fortifications that compatible with the modern warfare. Like having the option to deploy ditches and stakes or sand sacks in a strategic point on the map in my territory. I remember an option in RTW where you could wave a look at a settlement with no meaning at all. Imagine something like that with an ability to deploy some features or destroy a bridge for example.
Anyone finds this idea exiting?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I think this is good idea ..
In M2TW you can deploy stakes when using archers .. so deployng sand sacks or something like that wouldn't be that much diffrent .. altough I do not think that they used those options that much in 18th century .. perhaps I'm wrong

[vasilisguru]

I think this is good idea ..
altough I do not think that they used those options that much in 18th century .. perhaps I'm wrong

Im not 100% sure, I have seen films and they did

[Lord Winter]

Trenches were vital in Seige warfare as for in the field? You had a few instances but mostly it was out in the open with each unit firing untill the other broke.

[Matt_Lane]

I don't see trenches as applicable for general battles but I would love to see them as part of the preparations for a siege. Where as MTW2 gives you the option to build towers, ladders and rams I'd like ETW to ask you to build ladders, earthworks and trenches. When you come to battle these should give cover to your cannons and provide staging areas for your assault parties.

For the defenders I'd like to see defense upgrades available such as blockhouses, redans, bastions,counter scarps, redoubts and star forts. With ETW locating more features outside of walled settlements smaller fortifications such as blockhouses and redoubts will hopefully be available to defend them.

[RLucid]

Reading accounts of Marlborough's battles, whilst some were battles of "opportunity" where both armies encountered each other. In general one side "offered battle" at a particular position, and indeed these were strengthened by defensive works. The allied forces would move forwards with fascines (wood bundles) to fill in ditches and such, and their pioneers would have picks to tear at defenses, to reduce them.

A game excluding features is giving a slanted impression.