Does anyone use forts?

[planetfall]

--- BUMMER ---

Can't fortify radar towers. Talk about something in the game screaming for fortification.

I don't have any mountains/hills/rivers and have to plant a radar tower with no bonus protection. Big bummer.

-- PF

[Worthingtons]

I once used them, like someone else said, to create a maginot line, Guess what :

the AI went round

A good idea, to make the game interesting, is to increase thier power in the editor.

[Arrian]

The Germans did that too, Rothy. Static fortifications just aren't that powerful, and the game accurately reflects that, I think.

The AI will avoid good defensive units in forts (or at least it did with 1.29, I don't know about PTW yet), so they can be useful for herding the AI's units into a specific area where you are prepared to slaughter them.

-Arrian

[planetfall]

Originally posted by Rothy
I once used them, like someone else said, to create a maginot line, Guess what :

the AI went round

A good idea, to make the game interesting, is to increase thier power in the editor.

Because of the towers and the wide spread use of them by the AI's, I now almost always hit the towers first and then the AI city. 25% improvement in off/def does not sound like much but win/losses parallel experience in attacking across a river. Substantially increased my losses of MA. Rather than just pumping out more fuel for the fire, I hit the towers first.

It is great when the towers are in front or alongside the cities. Interesting placement strategies by AI of towers:

1. behind city
2. on hill/mt behind city
3. across small waterway bend, still within 2 tiles of city to give defense bonus, but very hard to get to as land movement may be as high as 6 tiles. In those cases I just live with the losses.

Interestingly the AI does not seem to build towers during war. Once you start punching them out you don't have to worry about new towers springing up.

== PF

[Killerdaffy]

Originally posted by planetfall
Interestingly the AI does not seem to build towers during war. Once you start punching them out you don't have to worry about new towers springing up.

== PF

Interesting. It might be due to the fact that the AI generally keeps his workers in cities during wars. Since the worker is consumed in the process of building the tower that's quite stupid of course so we should tell this to Soren in some thread he's watching.