Use Your Forts Properly!!!!

[sapi]

I'm with Colovian. I'd like to use forts but it would make the game (more unfair) unfair and would lose challenge because the AI never does. Maybe if they started using forts properly I would use them also. I hope CA can improve this AI in patches, they did a decent job doing that with MTW, and the release AI in RTW is at least better than the MTW 1.0 AI, so there's hope.

From what i can see, there is a quirk in the ai which means that they don't use forts until they are a) under attack and b) don't have many towns

[Bob the Insane]

I think that the AI is quite expansionist and therefore never bothers with securing it's lands... I have occasionally seen AI forts so there must be a trigger for them in there somewhere, but what it is I can't even guess at...

It could be a difficulty related thing...

Personally I when playing the Romans I will send a large army deep into the enemy territories to attack their Capital and largest settlements, I will build forts at the end of each movement because it sort of fits with the whole Roman theme....