I can build Expansionist units with Early Empire, and I haven't seen any AI civs build them, but the tiles claimed don't actually seem to belong to me. I claimed a natural wonder with an Expansionist but I'm not realizing the bonus from it. Is this a known bug?

For some reason the AI in my game absolutely can build the expansionist, and quite alot. They just spam them at every empty tile they have, which expands their borders, where they build even more forts. Anyone else facing this problem? I am using Real Strategy (AI) but I'm not sure if that affects it.

I tried using the mod that allows expansionist to build forts, apparently, but I can almost never actually build a fort. I think the only way I can build it is if it's next to a strategic resource (oil etc)? Is that it? I can't find anything by googling and of course there is no in game help on a mod.

agreed @jaunco

could you make a version where the ai can use this but have it like civ 5 that it basically becomes a declaration of war if it is used to steal land

anyone else cant create product from coorporation?

@willuwontu there is a mod that does this. It's called Foreign Resource Extraction 3.0 by Liam. It was just recently updated, too. I highly recommend it.

Would it be possible to get a fort for ocean tiles as well, sometimes that oil is out of range of land, and something like this would be useful.

Just play Poland

A bit of a UI bug but items in EARLY EMPIRE overflows due to the extra items added, causing the governor title icon to fall out of line
A potential fix would just simply be moving these items to military tradition / state work force

I really enjoy this mod. However, I think the experience would be much better if whatever fort you build defaults to the nearest friendly city rather than to your capital city.

I can confirm that I'm unable to build a fort with only Early Empire. My workaround is to place a fort and put it in my territory with Cheat Menu Editor, which does trigger the effect. Then I can just delete the unit.

I'm not sure if it's some mod conflict or this mod just doesn't work as it should, but although the expansionist unit can be correctly created at Early Empire, I cannot build forts until Castles tech is researched. So thus the expansionist is just a low-cost version of military engineer with less functions.

I can confirm that constructed forts correctly claim tiles around them.
I cannot confirm that AI spams building early forts. TBH I didn't see them build a single early fort.

Anyone know if this works with the roman castrum mod? And if not if there is a way to make it?

If I wanted to edit this mod and change it to say 2 tile radius instead of 1, where would I do that? I looked through all the files and couldn't find it. Which is strange because I used to have this mod in the past and managed to do it then. I have a new computer now tho, so maybe I am just not opening the files up in the right app.

I know it is abandoned, but it would be nice if they removed the fact that the strategic resource is erased if you build a fort above it. The AI keeps spamming these forts everywhere, wiping strategic resources off the map in the process.

This works just fine for me.

It can also be made to work with 6T eras by simply removing Tech_Castles from the Tech Requirements.

So I recently realised, the Ai does use them aswell and pretty often. Like I fought against Ottomans, they hat at least one such Forts in every city. All other AI's use them aswell.

Correct, it utilises scripts that require a new game in order to run them properly.

This can't be added mid-save, correct?

Can confirm the expansionist unit that creates a fort does not work. I cannot create a fort anywhere with it.

Please come back TC! You've done a lot of good work here. Your mods need you 😢

One day our leader will return... One day

Reporting a repeating error:

StrategicForts: RemoveFortPlots()--------------------------
Runtime Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\289070\1142306094\StrategicForts.lua:809: attempt to index a nil value
stack traceback:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\289070\1142306094\StrategicForts.lua:809: in function 'RemoveFortPlots'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\289070\1142306094\StrategicForts.lua:157: in function 'OnImprovementRemovedFromMapTC'
[C]: in function 'func'
[C]: in function '(anonymous)'

in classical age, the expansionist unit stopped being able to place the fort on top of trees and resources. could only place where the vanilla fort could be placed.

There's an issue when using this mod with CQUI. It seems like certain tile yields aren't properly updated unless you reload the game. Best example, is with Petra. If you grab desert tiles that are in range of a Petra city, it will assign them to your capital first (regardless of which city trained the expansionist) thereby not increasing the yields, and even if you swap the ownership of those tiles to the Petra city, it will still not have the increased yields. You have to reload the game for it to update.

I ran into an issue with this mod where it became impossible to remove forts. Seemingly any time borders changed - though I only noticed it directly with when a city rebelled - any tiles which had previously had forts removed restored the fort there. Disabling the mod resolved this.

For tiles with regular improvements, they were replaced with the fort again. For tiles with districts, the fort seemed to exist on the tile at the same time as the district.

This could possibly be an interaction with other mods so I'll let someone else report whether they're also seeing the same thing.

Also a secondary issue, the AI under certain circumstances seems to build an excessive amount of forts, to the point where one neighbor replaced the entirety of their tile improvements with nothing but forts. Not sure if this is related to this mod or just a general AI issue, but figured I'd mention it.

This mod technically works with 6T, but not really.

Forts don't unlock at Early Empire, they still unlock in the Renaissance with 6T, so the Expansionist can be built, but only pretty late into the game.

And when I last played in July/August this mod still worked fine for me.

6T is a new (and smaller) alternative to the Warfare Expanded unit mods, allowing you to get more units for the game.

What is 6T? Does this work still?

Is it just me, or does expanionists not work when used with 6T?

@orionox Did you ever resolve the issue where the expansionist cannot build forts? I'm having teh same issue.

This mod is great and i personally love it. However after placing 12 of these they stopped claiming land. is there a limit to how many i can place?

Hey TC, I'm getting this error in my Database.log & Modding.log files:

From the Database.log file;
ERROR: UNIQUE constraint failed: Improvement_ValidFeatures.ImprovementType, Improvement_ValidFeatures.FeatureType


From the Modding.log file;
UpdateDatabase - Loading StrategicForts_Data.sql
Warning: UpdateDatabase - Error Loading SQL

It's definitely coming from when I am trying to run this mod, but the weird thing is that I cannot see anything wrong in the mod's code that could be causing the error, and I absolutely cannot find any other mod or game file that I have tweaked that directly crosses over with this mod's particular code, so I am 100% certain that there is no conflict of any sort in play.

I think moving Expansionist to State Workforce would be great, simply due to so many things in Early Empire it forces your icon off the rectangle. It would look much more better !

Amazing mod, my first one and very important. But how to make scout dont have this ability to build forts?

There's no build fort option for the expansionist, only the option remove resource options are available. Additionally, the expansionist allows me to to remove resources that haven't even been revealed yet.

How would I enable expansionist for AI?

I want to try it out and maybe try tweaking things with this and other mods to prevent spam.

Ok thanks, i'm just unlucky, like i'm since the beginning of this happy new year ... thanks for your help and your advises. We all have like 0 techs, and they had like 2x more military strenght than me, so i guess that's why they do that ... well, i always destroy them at war, as long as they have the same units, cause IA is dumb, but that's annoying to be in constant war ... and i agree with using ranged units on citys, that's the smartest sing to do. To see military strenght, i've change the options, but i don't remember where ...

I agree with Cobber51, if your military strength is greater than the civ in question, then it is less likely to attack you. also if you are at least one tech level ahead, then this also lessens the AI from attacking you. there is a mod that will let you see your civ's stats as well as the stats of AI/Players that you have met. it will show how several things, including, military strength, tech and civic points per turn , # of techs achieved. I believe it is call diplomatic ribbon, I think it would help you. I believe having a Military str at least 50% greater and/or at least 2 techs level greater than you opponent, you'll be safe. garrisoning troops in forts along the border is also good, especially ranged units.

That said, if you are massively more advanced technologically than the AI then that seems to temper its tendency to attack you via a Surprise War, but even then, as I recall it correctly, it could still launch a Surprise War against you despite having absolutely no chance to actually win it, let alone actually threatened one of your cities with siege, or even capture...

As far as I can recall, if the AI for whatever reason saw you as being militarily weaker than it (most likely in terms of the overall number of active military units you have, irrespective of their tech level compared to the AI's unit's tech level), then no matter how friendly your diplomatic relationship was with them, they would attack you via a Surprise War, even if you had like +100 mood with them.

As I just said, it seems to have always been completely random if/when it happened, and even more so if the AI Civ was technically an aggressive or expansionist one like the Aztecs, Macedonians, or even the Germans for that matter.

@Material Ghost:

It's been about 22 months since I last played, but from memory the AI declaring a Surprise War on you (or me, or any other human player for that matter) always appeared to be very random, and it never seemed to matter what level of friendliness you had with them, they always seemed to do it under the most irrational of diplomatic circumstances.

I'd wager that you've just had the same issue of it being completely unpredictable as many, many other players, including myself, have since late 2016 when Civ VI first launched. None of the official updates seemed to ever have fixed it either.

In short, this mod is no more likely to be the source of this issue than the binary code of the original base game itself.

and one of them had litterally +20 mood with me when he attack ...

excuse me, but there is a bug for AI spamming surprise war or am i just unlucky ? i was litterally in antique age and no one could discover any techs (i'm sure 100% my techs and civics are cost x50) . i have some ressources mods (like sukritact's oceans) , better forts and slow techs installed, and i never been spammed like that before (i never seen IA attack someone already in war like that) ... sorry for annoying you ...

Works great. Does AI ever build them though? Havent seen that yet and if not, seems a little OP.

Hi TC,
your mod has been translated into German and the translation is now part of the Civilization VI Mods - German translations mod pack.
We would be more than happy if you could refer to the language translation in your mod description.

Lately downloaded this mod along with two others and launched a new game. Deep into it (more than 300 turns) and now the game crashes constantly with no error message. I suspect this mod is the reason, although I don't really know how and why. Too bad, because the idea behind it is awesome.

Mods perfectly fine for me

It still works for me, and I play Rome quite often. I haven't seen a problem...

Also it was updated 22 March, 2020 too.