where to build walls?

[Ronin75]

I am in need of a lot more patrols, but don't really want to invest many more guards on this job. In the manor tower description it says that walls passively can replace patrols to lighten the duty. I build a wooded wall half around my village on the side where the housing is, but it does not seem to do anything to reduce patrol need.
How exactly is this suppose to work? Where should I place walls?
In addition, do gates ways need a guard spot? I have a gate way out in the woods for my wood cutters and hunters to pass through, no houses close by. Do I need a guard there too?

[ac566]

Walls just add fortification afaik. If you enclose your entire city/population center with walls you won't need any guardsmen, but patrollers are different.

[Bored Peon]

Patrols are always needed for housing for higher density housing.

Fortifications are either the light wooden pallisade walls or heavy stone walls.

Watchmen can use watchtowers to provide fortification, but they are not 100% reliable.

[Maehlice]

Today's patch was for you:

Fix some fortification strings that mentioned patrollers instead of watchmen

So at least the text should be a little less confusing now.

[Ronin75]

Thanks for the info, but it seems that the wall distance to a home plays a role. I have a few houses in the middle of the village, now surrounded by walls that do not get fortification bonus. It seems you have to have a wall close to house, which defeats the purpose of having a larger village surrounded by a wall, but the ones in the middle don't get the bonus :(

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Ronin75:

Thanks for the info, but it seems that the wall distance to a home plays a role. I have a few houses in the middle of the village, now surrounded by walls that do not get fortification bonus. It seems you have to have a wall close to house, which defeats the purpose of having a larger village surrounded by a wall, but the ones in the middle don't get the bonus :(

Proximity doesn't matter. It just needs to be a contiguous wall. The end points of the wall sections need to intersect the 'post' portion of the gates.

As soon as you complete the wall (even before confirming and starting to build), the interior will highlight with purples lines showing fortification.

EDIT: How big of an area are you talking about? I've enclosed about a 300m wide area with a single wall with no issue. But, everything in this game seems to have a range, so maybe if you're trying to encircle the whole map ...

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Maehlice:

EDIT: How big of an area are you talking about? I've enclosed about a 300m wide area with a single wall with no issue. But, everything in this game seems to have a range, so maybe if you're trying to encircle the whole map ...

My current game my city wall encloses six territories.

As long as it remains closed it will give the fortification bonus as you said. There is a point that it can be not complete enclosed and it will give the bonus if you have a bottleneck with the walls. Meaning the walls are close enough it gives the bonus.