How do I engage the Enemy if I am in my Fort ???

Stryke11 · #2 October 26th, 2006, 11:12 PM

Along with any province defense you have, which I believe always defends the land and not the fortress.

UninspiredName · #3 October 27th, 2006, 12:20 AM

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Stryke11 said:
Along with any province defense you have, which I believe always defends the land and not the fortress.

Considering the province defense is already wiped out by the time 'defending the fortress' is an issue.

Stryke11 · #4 October 27th, 2006, 02:39 AM

Well...yeah

Meglobob · #5 October 27th, 2006, 05:50 PM

This needs to be made more clear, this caught me out twice, both times I had a army more than capable of destroying an attacker in a province with a fort. Only to find myself besieged next turn, all my units stayed behind the fortress walls....arrrgh.

In order to defend the province not the fort, is the only order u give patrol?

It seems stupid to me, all units in a province should automatically defend the province 1st. If u want them to hide behind a fortresses walls, u should have to give them a specific order to do so. Not the reverse...why is this?

Taqwus · #6 October 27th, 2006, 07:21 PM

It's not unusual to have commanders which you -don't- want participating in the battle -- ex. researchers. In addition, this forces you to choose how they spend their time -- which is not completely unreasonable.

It's also quite possible that you'll only have a force sufficient to hold the walls for a while, and rely on a mobile, nastier, and probably much more expensive force to break sieges. In a multiplayer game, you might not want to reveal everything you have inside a fortress to a single probe...