Will Sorties be Attackers or Defenders?

[Wizzington]

Sorties will have a special rule that lets them use the defending terrain as long as it's *only* the sortie troops (no river crossings however). If you pile in more troops to help a sortie the enemies will get the terrain bonus instead.

 

[Wizzington]

I apologize if you've answered this before, but will garrisons now use manpower to replenish?

Or at the very least, will damaged troops who've sortied and won require manpower to regenerate?

If not, carpet sieging is effectively dead in the early game. (Assuming AI knows how to use it)

Garrisons do not use manpower under any circumstances.

 

[Wizzington]

Is the ability to sortie dependent on fortress level?

You can sortie from any fort, the # of troops of course depends on fort level. It's probably a bad idea to sortie from a level 1 fort under most circumstances.

 

[Wizzington]

That's quite odd.

A besieging army should not benefit from the terrain if a sortie occurs.

It's necessary for sorties not to become the 'click 1 day before my doomstack arrives to get mountain bonus' button.