First Post......Be Gentle

[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!

[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)

[munited18]

Excellent! Thanks. Is there a terrain requirement or can you build them anywhere as long as you meet the arty and supply prereqs?

[munited18]

sorry. just read your link and it answered all things! thanks again!

[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?

[Rafiki]

It doesn't matter what kind of artillery, you can use the cheapest you can find, the most expensive, or any variations thereof

[pepe4158]

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?

[Rafiki]

Yup

[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?

[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.

[Rafiki]

[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