Just a quick poll question re: forts

[Warlord 11]

Nope

[Kralizec]

Lots

You're not thinking of removing them are you?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I'm just asking. I don't use them much and am curious about whether others do.

[paullus]

Is there something cool you could do if they weren't in? Or are you just asking to distract people from that forum game thread?

I like to use them in passes, or in open, vulnerable areas away from a major settlement, I think of them as military settlements (too bad I can't get taxes from them, but oh well).

[Antagonist]

I use them occasionally if I'm in hostile territory with a small infantry army, or to defend a position, and sometimes if I'm in a role-playing mood I'll put any active field armies in a fort during the Winter turn, but other then that not much.

I still think they should be there though, forts and watchtowers are a good addition to the strategic game even if they aren't perhaps fully fleshed-out as a game mechanic.

Antagonist

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Was lt's revision of the roman forts in the .074 build? He worked on them a good deal - but I don't know if the ones in 074 (roman ones) look like vanilla or were the adaptations he made.

[Conqueror]

Forts don't have much value to me. They tend to be more like deathtraps than useful defenses: You can be besieged while in a fort and sallying out could be much more difficult than actually facing the enemy on the field, especially so since you'd be the attacker instead of the defender. And since a fort will only keep your troops fed for 4 turns there's a good chance that the enemy will just wait it out. If they could be upgraded to have better walls, forts might become a bit more useful. As it stands, I only use them for the purpose of slowing down approaching armies (manning them with cheap, expendable units) to buy time for myself to make preparations.