Fort Building

[DJLOGAN]

How often and where should I build forts?

[Kid Icarus]

There's several things to consider, but in general you want forts on locations with high population for extra recruitment points and hopefully next to high resource provinces so you can draw more resources for recruitment.

That being said, depending on what you want to recruit it might make more sense to build a fort in the mountains (extra high resource units) and certain nations have preferred terrain for building forts.

You might need to pay attention to how many forts draw resources from a province, because you can drain it all the way to zero.

It's not a bad idea to fort the temple provinces so they can't just be easily destroyed by raiders.

I have heard many players say they like to get a fort up in the first year, but I don't always achieve that.

So... I don't know. You have to assess the situation and follow some general advice I guess. I'm sure others will have more info

[of Anwyl]

Always fort thrones. And if you're ermor/lemuris fort every province.

[Perro Grande]

Every 3 red seconds

[oldrocker99]

Originally posted by 3 Theories:

Every 3 red seconds

[DJLOGAN]

Originally posted by 3 Theories:

Every 3 red seconds

What?

[oldrocker99]

It's a joke; it's a Blood 8 spell, on page 215 of the manual.

[Bam Margera]

Think of it as a production/ defensive building, you only want to have enough forts to spend all of your money every turn, if you cant, build more. This is because it is really expensive to build a fort, temple, lab, and then the upgrade so you dont want to build too many forts. Getting an early fort is really important to get so you can train mages and get your research going, you often want to cut mages and troops early to squeeze out an early fort. Later when you have a ton of gold you can spam forts without temples or labs and be a pain in the ass to invade, and can give you time to react to an invasion.

[jojeck]

Originally posted by 3 Theories:

Every 3 red seconds

There is also Wizards Tower at Alt 8 costing 50 E gems and needing E4 to cast. Gives an instant castle in the late game.
Living Castle at Conj 7 costing 40 N gems and needing 4N1W to cast gives a weak castle underwater. This can be useful for land nations invading underwater since they can't build forts there.

[Abisha]

AI build already more then enough forts, Just make forts at bottleneck locations.
if you play on maps without borders then dont bother at all making forts.

[Hasefrexx]

I use forts on rich provinces for the extra income, the other benefits are icing on the top.

Otherwise it's a good way to fortify a position, on maps with many players I can't fight them all so building forts on one part allows to focus on another part of my borders.

[of Anwyl]

Forts are more important for building dudes than keeping provinces safe.

[Bou]

Originally posted by of Anwyl:

Forts are more important for building dudes than keeping provinces safe.

This

[Cruxador]

First fort should be as soon as you can afford it without harming your expansion. After that, build one on a throne or an otherwise very important province. But for the most part, just buy a new one if, despite recruiting a mage at every fort you have, your gold is piling up.

Originally posted by Abisha:

AI build already more then enough forts, Just make forts at bottleneck locations.
if you play on maps without borders then dont bother at all making forts.

Yeah, if you're just tooling around against the AI, it doesn't matter much what you do. That's true in general, not just for forts.