What's so bad about forts?

[Bob the Insane]

I used them a lot in RTW but not so much in M2TW...

I find it more effective to simply leave a decent sized army in a strategically sound position...

Where is can be benficial is guarding a group of bridges. Rather than having a large army on each. You have a fort with a single unit your side of each bridge and station a large army withing a single turn's move of all the forts.

While this may appear to give the bridge to the attacking unit, if you place you defending army next to the besieged fort and then attack from within the fort it counts as a sally battle and you fight on the fort square and not on the bridge. This also prevents the attacking army bringing reinforcements from the other side of the bridge...

[avery123]

I used them a lot in RTW but not so much in M2TW...

I find it more effective to simply leave a decent sized army in a strategically sound position...

Where is can be benficial is guarding a group of bridges. Rather than having a large army on each. You have a fort with a single unit your side of each bridge and station a large army withing a single turn's move of all the forts.

While this may appear to give the bridge to the attacking unit, if you place you defending army next to the besieged fort and then attack from within the fort it counts as a sally battle and you fight on the fort square and not on the bridge. This also prevents the attacking army bringing reinforcements from the other side of the bridge...

Can you (or anyone) show me a screenshot of your use of forts please?