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Stormbinder said:Castles reqiure a lot of resourses and population to build and maintain
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Watchtowers, however, which are usually what are being built, do not. Castles DO cost a lot, that's why noone uses them.
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Nor for that matter do mausoleums require much to build and maintain - look at crypts and mausoleums hundreds of years old in this world. Similarly, one doesn't really expect a Wizard Tower to demand much population / physical resources to maintain or build.
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and it would increase fun and enjoyment from the game for all players.
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I haven't had the same experiences you have and I rarely see the kind of castles you are talking about until the late game. If there was no defense, even temporary, from raiding, it would make my game less fun, not more fun. Your first suggestion, at least, would strengthen raiding and weaken the uses of dominion (at least any that required the use of temples).
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Indeed - even _with_ castles, it can be a real hassle trying to catch raiders. I've been trying to nail some Vanheim raiders for about 6 turns in one of my games; without my towers, I'd've lost temples as well as time, PD, mages, and troops.
For that matter - one could argue that _raiders_ being too powerful is the problem, and "mad castling" the unfortunate solution.
If initiative / movement sequence was random, so there would be a 50/50 chance of catching the raiders in their current provinces, castling wouldn't be so critical.
As is, the raiders _always_ move on to the next territory first, not counting magic army (usually magic _commander_) movement, after already burning any temple in the province and jacking taxes to 200%.
And, just like in the real world, Europe in particular, it's
perfectly reasonable to have a castle, tower, fortress, palace, walled city, in every bloody province if one can afford it.
And finally, most of the castle types that can be "mad castled" are pretty easy to kick down.
If the argument is that "they stand up long enough for the VQ / AQ / BL to teleport in and kill the army", I think it's more about people's frustration with army-killing single SCs, and
not about the castles.
Possibly the slower, more expensive castles could use some improvement - but that'd require a big rebalancing that I wouldn't expect to see until a Dom3 is more than a twinkle in the players minds.
