Your Use Of Forts

[Snoil The Mighty]

Good Stuff! I am slowly sorting all of this into map area defensive fort placement. I probably will include map coordinates for the placements when it is done.
P.S. You get map coordinates with show_cursorstat while you are hovering the mouse over some point on the map.

Cool! Had no clue about the map co-ordinates, thanks! And, I'll be watching for your setup

[JCoyote]

I saw something on Venice earlier, and if you really want to know the best way to defend that city has nothing to do with forts. Station an army on the bridge to the city! Bridges are far superior to forts and even cities as defensive positions. SECOND BONUS: stationing on the bridge prevents all agents from entering the city. Venice is probably the single best defensive position in the entire game.

[Czar Alexsandr]

Ah yes! Another Russia player uses the forts! Sounds like you have a good network of forts Snoil. I also have been almost exclusively playing Russia. But I've messed around with England, Sicily, Egypt, and France to. I started a new campaign as Russia though and hope to have enough money to build some very nice defenses.

Has anyone used one in an actual battle well? Well, I discovered that a few units of spear at the breached gate and a unit of shock infantry on a flank seem to do wonders to the enemy's siege force. On a budget you can stick a unit of spears at the gate and a unit of woodsmen or other cheap crap on the other side. In a V formation. Have both charge when it gets close and you'll probably lose the battle... but this is about killing as many as possible with little cost. If you don't want to losse.. consider a few good spear that can do shiltron.. 3 works good. And two units of specialty infantry like swordsmen or axes. Don't even bother at that breached gate. Put your spears in the square put them in Shiltron and set them in a L shape. Pur a unit of specialist in front of them and one in the back. Enemy runs right into your spears and gives your specialty guys the time to kill a ton of them. It's not easy and a lot of men will die but you're still winning economicaly. Also.. if you're looking for a challenge this definately worked for me.