Fort trolling

[AdAstra]

I find imagining it as a (abstracted) version of supply lines works. The fort controls whatever river, valley, road or dirt track the local supply lines go through, until you capture the fort it blocks any attempts for your armies to go through. Attempting to transport supplies for your army cross country is too difficult.

Even if this is the case, and there is supply problems, I fail to see how secondary army, that cannot access plains next to a castle province because of imaginary walls, and all imaginary stuff makes any sense. Even in imaginary land.

 

[Tacticus101]

Even if this is the case, and there is supply problems, I fail to see how secondary army, that cannot access plains next to a castle province because of imaginary walls, and all imaginary stuff makes any sense. Even in imaginary land.

If they add a supply line mechanic to the game then I am sure they will allow bypassing forts, until then there has to be some sort of abstraction, even just for gameplay reasons.

 

[AdAstra]

If they add a supply line mechanic to the game then I am sure they will allow bypassing forts, until then there has to be some sort of abstraction, even just for gameplay reasons.

Well how about this for abstraction. If fort is under siege it loses all zone of control.

 

[illathid]

Well how about this for abstraction. If fort is under siege it loses all zone of control.

Then why have ZoC at all? It would be trivially easy to bypass ZoC in any circumstance if that was true.

 

[AdAstra]

Then why have ZoC at all? It would be trivially easy to bypass ZoC in any circumstance if that was true.

Indeed, why we have it?

 

[illathid]

Because it allows for interesting stategic and tactical decisions, and potentially allows a smaller country to hold out longer against a larger enemy.

 

[ciadude2]

Because it allows for interesting stategic and tactical decisions, and potentially allows a smaller country to hold out longer against a larger enemy.

A country like Russia could be practically immortal playing on the defensive.

 

[mic-dk]

A country like Russia could be practically immortal playing on the defensive.

Well, history shows that a land war against Russia is kinda of a bad idea. Especially during winter.

Makes sense to me.

 

[Snaggleooo]

Hm, OK. But I could mothball something in Berlin. It also changed the upkeep from 1.0 to 0.5 and a 1000 man garrison either way. I will take another look tonight.

You just mothballed the castle/bastion/starfort. There is still the free (no upkeep) fort in the capital with the 1000-man garrison. If you clicked the box to un-mothball the castle/bastion/whatever, the garrison would have grown at the end of the month up to whatever your fort building provides (2000 for castle + the 1000 for capital fort).