Star Forts Useless?

[Marquis of Roland]

After well over 10 battles in forts, i've noticed two useless things. Defending the walls first of all is utterly pointless. When your units fire a volley the bullets always go over the top of the enemy units heads and hit the ground behind them. And second, the cannons on the wall never hit any enemy soldiers. I always fire them in every battle and have literally never seen a cannonball hit or kill a single enemy, even when all are fired.

Kind of pointless that forts even exist as the game is now, what with the wall cannons and the ability to fire a volley from great height behind the main selling points of even building a fort.

Yea the cannons and your guys on the walls will shoot over the head of any unit running full speed at the fort. Once they stop though, they start causing big casualties. How do you make them stop? put a few cannon fodder infantry units right outside the wall so they can't climb up until that unit is defeated. You'll generally see a bunch of their units bunch up right under the wall and those cannons, while it won't cause many casualties when firing at the line of men, WILL kill alot of men bunched up in a big ball.

Keeping cavalry outside the fort works if you outclass/outnumber enemy cavalry.

Another thing: once the enemy gets on the walls, you can micromanage your infantry on unengaged parts of the wall to shoot that breached area. I also like to keep some light infantry in the courtyard, they shoot any enemy on the walls, and usually get a lot of kills if you can keep them out of the courtyard for a good amount of time.