[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by apoger:
Just my opinions but;

The elite warriors are the bread and butter for C'tis, just like Dom I. If not using them then use the LI. All the rest of C'tissian troops are second rate. The only other troop I'd make is the Swamp Guard, and only under limited circumstances.

Even with the better defenses of some of the forts, I'd sooner chew off my left leg than take a fort other than the fortified city or wizards tower. Even with lower admin effects, the extra gold is clutch. Furthermore fort defense is nonsense. What does extra fort defense buy you? Some smug emotional feeling that you are doing some extra damage to someone as they remove you from the game? Pointless. Do not plan around having your forts under siege. That is planning towards your own defeat. Take a better admin fort, so you have more gold, so you can make more troops, so you win in the field, so you never have to defend your own forts. Plan for victory. If you plan for defeat you are going to get what you planned for.

An enemy killed by your arrow towers (or in Miasma's case, by your dominion while he sits outside staring at your City Guards) is just as dead as one killed in the field. Being seiged is not necessarily a defeat. Of course it's annoying if they storm you successfully - but that's one of the reasons it's so hard to find out what the beseiged army has, it makes storming a crapshoot (doubly so if you're storming a hill fort or a mountain citadel). A failed storm attempt can be ruinous - and waiting around in Miasma dominion while you bring more troops could be equally costly.

Also, better admin forts no longer get you huge amounts of extra gold as they did in Dom I (this is a good thing IMO).

I think assuming that you will never have to defend your own forts is arrogant to the point of idiocy. If you really have that huge a margin of superiority over your opponents it doesn't matter what fort you take.

Furthermore if the fort buys you enough time to bring up a reinforcing army and coordinate it with a sortie (while your opponent hesitates to expose more troops to Miasma or starvation)...