Does anyone build walls? Suggestion for simple modding of walls.

[Colovion]

I haven't been besieged enought to make building walls worthwhile; the enemy just falls down, their empire chain routs and the game is over.

[Sinner]

Taking into account purely functional considerations, I always build wooden walls as a just-in-case measure to give me time to rush a field army to my settlement's defence in the event of a surprise attack - something more likely now that rebels are more aggresive.

If the local enemy or neutral factions are fielding elephants and/or siege engines then I'd consider upgrading to stone walls but it would depend on the value of the city - and I might highly value a city simply for the temple it holds, for example, or because it's in a strategic location, not just monetary terms or troop building capability.

On rare occasions I like to build up the defences of a city because I know an enemy faction will keep trying to take it and it's a great way to weaken them by getting them to break their teeth as they try to storm the city or counter a sally.

(I'm currently having fun in my latest Julii campaign doing this to the Carthaginians and Greeks on Sicilly: with some help from my agents the Scipii are gone and I managed to acquire Messana, although the damned Brutii beat me to Capua due to the sheer luck of having an army marching past at the time. :( My main armies are busy in northern europe, but with a new general and some veteran troops I'd luckily just sent back from the front for retraining to the latest upgrades I'm able to tie up both factions until I'm free to crush them.)

Eventually I like to upgrade all my cities to stone walls, but that's simply because I don't like the image of them being protected by some scrappy wooden fence. By the time I get around to this I'm usually flush with cash and it doesn't really matter that I'm 'wasting' money.

[Somebody Else]

I go for at least palisades, but beyond that, I only upgrade the walls when everything else is already built. I don't like my settlements exposed, but they don't need any more than the basics. If it's a case where I need big walls in my settlements, there's clearly something wrong with my... foreign policy.

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To be fair, I conduct most of my city defences in the streets, not bothering with the walls - which I regard as useful for delaying the assault on the campaign map until the AI can build up some siege equipment, and also for channeling their forces once a breach has been made, so that I can rip them apart, piecemeal, as they progress to the town square.

[Chrissium Julius]

I always try to get at least stone walls on all of my sttlements, because then i can just put some archers at the top and they will be able to fire away at the enemy! Its an incredible usefulthing to have when you're being besieged, especially if the enemy has no missile weaponry.

[Kaldhore]

Enemies rarely get past my Large stone walls - They are a great upgrade to get and not really that expensive.

You can use those walls agressively in Sallying forth (1.2 changed this a bit) the enemy mostly sat within firing range of my archers on the wall till half of them were dead, then they shouted "run for the hills" and my cav waiting behind the gate charge forth and cut them down - no need for inf.