Alesia

[Sam Adams]

...there should be a special map for alesia... a hilltop fortress.

[Es Arkajae]

I'd like it if barbarian settlements were harder to take in general.

I see no real difference between a palisade and a wooden wall to tell the truth, the so called 'improved' defences on the later are useless, the wall lasts a few seconds longer against a ram and the city may survive a couple more turns before being starved out.

Not really much for whole other level of wall. I'd like to see the barbarians get not stone walls but a barbarian equivalent, still made of wood and much more fragile than a stone wall but still with decent towers and walkways to mount troops on.

You could use siege towers, ladders and saps to assault them or you could still walk a ram up to the wall and start battering it down with that, though it would take a while and you'd be exposed to fire from the towers and defenders the entire time.

[Khorak]

Yeah, Barbarians, or Gauls at least, should be able to build a hilltop fort at their third city level. A reinforced wall at the top of a hill would be an utter arsehole to try and defeat if defended properly.

[The Stranger]

and stone walls if it is correct alesia was stone walled not epic walls but just the first one

[master of the puppets]

i would think it the coolest thing if you could desingn your own fort, that way you could make some historicly accurate and extremely well defended fort. not a settlement but a well fortified uh fort with first level stone walls, towers and moats.
sweet huh mabey double walls, watchtowers, watever or mabey i am just being stupid again...it happens.

[HicRic]

i would think it the coolest thing if you could desingn your own fort, that way you could make some historicly accurate and extremely well defended fort. not a settlement but a well fortified uh fort with first level stone walls, towers and moats.
sweet huh mabey double walls, watchtowers, watever or mabey i am just being stupid again...it happens.

If you like building your own castles (fort, castle, close enough ) I reccommend the game series called Stronghold. First class castle-building (and seiging!)

[Ar7]

Give some time to the poor AI, it will self-destruct if it will be forced to capture custom forts

[BDC]

I want hill forts too. Like in Britain.

[Mikeus Caesar]

If the barbarians were to get decent walls, i would personally have them as barbarian only walls. They would be big wooden walls with stone built around the bottom, with spikes sticking out of the stone. The walls would also have path things on top, and decent towers, that are placed in good places, like around the gate and stuff. And as for the original comment on a special map for alesia, i aslo think that each factions default capital should have it's own special city layout, rather than having it the same as the others. Or only allow the capital to reach the top tech lvl.