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First Post......Be Gentle
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:33 pm
by munited18
Hey everyone. Had the game for about a week now and am loving it, but of course am having the typical family and work hiccups!
My newbie question
is about the stockades/forts. In the manual I pulled off of Matrix Games forums it talks of building forts etc. Is this an actual command or is it part of the automatic entrenching activity? If it is a command is an engineer needed?
Anyway, thanks a lot and I love the game!
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:38 pm
by Rafiki
Hi munited18, and welcome to the forums
There is a special command for building forts, available to stacks when the necessary prerequisites are OK (For details about what they are, take a look at
http://www.ageod.net/aacwwiki/Fort#Building_a_fort). Entrenching is something else, and you don't need an engineer to build a fort (but you do need 4 artillery units and 2 supply wagon units)
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:45 pm
by munited18
Excellent! Thanks. Is there a terrain requirement or can you build them anywhere as long as you meet the arty and supply prereqs?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:46 pm
by munited18
sorry. just read your link and it answered all things! thanks again!
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:35 am
by pepe4158
Say been thinking on this n wondering if I am on to something....cheaper to build 4 10 pounders n build your fort......right?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:37 am
by Rafiki
It doesn't matter what kind of artillery, you can use the cheapest you can find, the most expensive, or any variations thereof
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 1:50 pm
by pepe4158
Rafiki wrote:It doesn't matter what kind of artillery, you can use the cheapest you can find, the most expensive, or any variations thereof
Hmmm meant you can save resources by building the cheaper ones....n getting the same results...ummm right?
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:13 pm
by Rafiki
Yup
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:35 am
by pepe4158
Say Raf...whats the highest level fort you can build? Said in the manual something about a level 5, but i can get it to build over a 2....right?
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:51 am
by Jabberwock
I think you're mixing up forts and entrenchments.
A pre-built fort is level 1.
A player built fort is level 2.
I've never needed to build any, so I don't know if there is a difference in combat effects.
Entrenchments can go up to level 8 if there is artillery in the stack, level 4 if there is no artillery. At level 5, stacks in entrenchments get the option to bombard passing ships. Stacks in forts should automatically bombard.
Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:24 pm
by Rafiki
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:42 am
by pepe4158
ahh ok your prob right there Jab....musta have been referring to entrenchments as high level....but waita minute, you must get some better def bonus from a level 2 fort versus a pre-war (level 1) fort....right?
N he-he (taunting) for our game ya better start lol
