Deployable Defences

[tibilicus]

What's the criteria for the option to have deployable defences to appear? I had the option for defences in one game but now the option never seems to be there..

[PBI]

What's the criteria for the option to have deployable defences to appear? I had the option for defences in one game but now the option never seems to be there..

You have to be defending, and I think your army has to have either not used up all its movement points, or else not moved at all, in the preceding turn. I generally seem to get them either when defending a city, or else defending against an enemy sally.

what tech/s unlocks fougasse?

My Jaegers seem to have them by default, I think they might just be available to any high-level light infantry.

[thurjack_mahr]

The best time to deploy the anti-cavalry stakes is when the enemy has been creeping up your flanks with his cavalry. I timed it *perfectly* (total luck, tbh) in a multi-player game and the wall went up at the instant the cavalry hit and it wiped them out almost totally to just charge. I suppose the moral of the story is to keep an eye on the flanks and if you have no cavalry on the flanks, try light infantry to counter them if timed right.

Another dirty trick is to build a anti-cavalry wall BEHIND the sandbag wall and goad them into attacking... ;P

[Bob the Insane]

[QUOTE=PBI;2175263]You have to be defending, and I think your army has to have either not used up all its movement points, or else not moved at all, in the preceding turn. I generally seem to get them either when defending a city, or else defending against an enemy sally.
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You should notice on the campaign map that after not moving for a turn (i think) your stack has a small ring of stakes around it. In this case you can deploy defenses.