Forts

[Tuuvi]

forts are useful for defending your cities. If you build them at choke points like mountain passes and river crossings the enemy will have to siege them to advance, giving you some time to get your army over to defeat them. Also If you are constantly getting invaded at a certain point and you build a fort there the AI will sometimes ignore you, allowing you to concentrate you defenses at other settlements.

[GodEmperorLeto]

Does the AI ever build forts? I mean, I don't think I've seen it done once.

[Gazius]

Does the AI ever build forts? I mean, I don't think I've seen it done once.

In a .74 game, I not only saw the Germans building forts, I saw them, and perhaps it was just accident, building them in a strategic location so as to cut off easy access into their terrority. Of course, I could still just go around it, but that would have taken me probably a entire year because of the distance and no roads. I haven't seen it in .8, but then again I've either quit due to CTD or just lost interest in the particular campaign.

[GMT]

Does the AI ever build forts? I mean, I don't think I've seen it done once.

In my current Makedon campaign I've been watching this Saba family member and this dude doesn't do anything but build forts!

It's really funny, he walks like one turn with his full stack.. then he builds a fort and just sits there for a couple of turns.. then he's off again to build another fort

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Does the AI ever build forts? I mean, I don't think I've seen it done once.

I had a game where Getai and Sweboz bordered eachother and then both built forts along their short border and sat their with full armies waiting for the other to move. Also Getai had two forts along my border, waiting for me to leave a border town defensless.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

I was once travelling to Mrogbonna with a Roman Legatus to hire some mercenarys. In the hostile country, I always ended the turn in a fort. When I moved on, one of their armies marched into my abandoned fort and had a comfortable stay their for about two or three turns I think. As I had hired enough mercenaries, I made my way home the same way. Just before I arrived at the site of my previous fort, AI was so friendly and left it again, so I had a home the next turn. That's what I call efficiency.

[GodEmperorLeto]

Wow. Maybe it varies from computer to computer, but in the dozens of campaigns I've played, I've can't say I remember the AI building any forts.

Some of your stories are awesome, though, and I'd really like to see that sort of thing as I continue to play through .80. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the fact that I was playing an older release.