Quote Originally Posted by Polemists View Post
It's the CIV4 vs TW mindset.


In civ 4 when you have a artillery unit, of any kind, you roll up next to the city on campaign map and hit bombard, which then destroy the implacements, citizens, and surrounding areas.

However you never actually zoom in to invade the city, you just charge some units in against the garrison on the campaign map, as all fighting since Civ 3 is done on the campaign map.

In TW you zoom in for battles so there is no need for any military actions, (other then blockades) to occur on the campaign map.
The reason I mentioned the idea of campaign combat is because I'm guessing that actual bombardment of a fort took a while. While it was later on, it appears that the bombardment of Sumter took a while, far longer than I would want to bombard in a real time game. That's why I had the idea of doing it on the campaign map. Similarly, you don't exterminate or sack a city in the battle map because it probably wouldn't be that interesting to do so.