Fortresses, Schmortresses!

[Dis]

I only build them in certain situations. moreso in human games than against the ai. although a human is likely to bypass the fortress...

in any case the pbem's I'm in right now, I still haven't gotten around to it. But eventually I will build fortresses on some hill and mountains squares.

[Nym]

Originally posted by aaglo
Okay, here's my fortress-wall. The picture is zoomed out, and I've put a red arrow on top of each fortress. Now this was the old line, I was originally on the southern side.

Considering the minimap, this fortress-wall was build a long time ago.

[pedrojedi]

"The manually made piece-by-piece Great Wall"

[badams52]

Hmmm, is that a gap in the wall I see near Ctesiphon? Just like the real great wall

[pedrojedi]

There's also a "sea gap" near Arbela... good for landing forces.

[Inverse Icarus]

i still wish fortressed exerted civ2-style ZOC. IE a unit cannot pass through 2 fortresses spaced 1 tile away

[pedrojedi]

Sometimes I think they took out ZOC because it was no longer relevant if you can't walk all over the place on enemy railroads anymore. Thinking this way, I like better the way it is now.

[dworkin]

I like them here, I like them there
In the hills and on the plains
So I can guard iron and grains
I like them Sam I am
I like some forts in my plan

[aaglo]

Yep, In my wall there is a gap. But I noticed it only when I already conquered the lands north from me...

[aaglo]

I guess nobody would feel bad, if I mention about my new idea for fortress graphics (I started a thread in the creation-forum).

Here's a "preview"

[badams52]

Looks pretty good, and would certainly clear up if you have any gaps...but I rarely build fortresses. Actually, one time I conquered the second continent, but didn't want to settle many completely corrupt cities, so I set up a border around the entire continent with 70+ tanks, cavalry, etc to keep the other civs from building cities. Still missed a few spots and noticed them as transports/galleons moved towards them for a landfall.

[pedrojedi]

Hey, aaglo, how do you make those graphics? They are c00l!

[aaglo]

I use a freeware program called pov-ray http://www.povray.org

It's a text-based raytracing program, with quite long learning curve. The tutorial help is really handy for starters...

[The Mad Monk]

I use some generic program that came with my computer.

[Deathwalker]

I always buld than at bottleneck and stick two artilery and two defence units in them, depending on how important the bottleneck is