Walls in Empire Total War

[darthfanta]

I just want to ask a question. Are walls damaged from assaults supposed to be repaired by itself? Apparently, that did not happen to my walls. Even though damaged, it did not show that it did. Therefore, everytime I conquered a city through damaging the walls, I had to tear them down and build a whole new one. Isn't there anyway to repair the walls?

[Farnan]

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[Sir Winston Churchill]

I just want to ask a question. Are walls damaged from assaults supposed to be repaired by itself? Apparently, that did not happen to my walls. Even though damaged, it did not show that it did. Therefore, everytime I conquered a city through damaging the walls, I had to tear them down and build a whole new one. Isn't there anyway to repair the walls?

If you click on the city, then click on your defenses, there is a repair button to the right. Its a hammer with a plus sign (this is not to belittle you or something, I honestly had no idea what the repair button was for like 3 days)

[Billux]

I have same problem, and when I click on defences the repair button won't work, it's just greyed out and doesn't do anything.

Funny thing happened today. Enemy attacked my city with defences, and bombarded two holes in walls plus additional damage. I won the battle, but then another army attacked the same city during the same AI turn. When I started the second battle walls were again as good as new. I won the battle and as second army had no cannons didn't have to worry about getting walls repaired.

[Pre5to]

maybe you don't have the money?

[darthfanta]

maybe you don't have the money?

I do! In fact, I had over 3 million gold.

[Ascarona]

You can't repair the defences, they repair automaticly. Or is the wall button/figure red?

[darthfanta]

You can't repair the defences, they repair automaticly. Or is the wall button/figure red?

The repair button says that the wall isn't damaged yet when I got attacked, there's a huge hole there. If it's repaired automaticlly, the question is, how long does it take to repair by itself?

[Faris ad Din]

That is bizarre, the several times I attacked other factions' fortifications and knocked holes in them willy-nilly, I never had to repair them - but everything else got seriously damaged, when I never hurt any buildings like that in battle! It seems you've got a bug, friend. It's probably supposed to be instantaneous and never sustain damage, like roads. You can't repair a hole that is actually there, if the game thinks that it's not damaged to begin with.

What's the point of such reckless damage to a region capital's buildings if the siege is actually supposed to take place at a fortification at the "approaches to the city" on the "city's outskirts"? Any such damage to those buildings in the city - government hall, barracks, artillery arsenal, observatory, admiralty - could only happen after that fort on the city's outskirts where your battle took place, was taken. What if my army doesn't want to damage such buildings by exactly 38.239% percent each (made up approximate figure)? Yet the building that remains intact is the fortification that I half-razed to the ground getting at the enemies inside. What irony - this is a backwards situation, like your and the enemy army's position are reversed in the battlemap from their strategy map positions. Way to go, whoever made that.

[darthfanta]

That is bizarre, the several times I attacked other factions' fortifications and knocked holes in them willy-nilly, I never had to repair them - but everything else got seriously damaged, when I never hurt any buildings like that in battle! It seems you've got a bug, friend. It's probably supposed to be instantaneous and never sustain damage, like roads. You can't repair a hole that is actually there, if the game thinks that it's not damaged to begin with.

What's the point of such reckless damage to a region capital's buildings if the siege is actually supposed to take place at a fortification at the "approaches to the city" on the "city's outskirts"? Any such damage to those buildings in the city - government hall, barracks, artillery arsenal, observatory, admiralty - could only happen after that fort on the city's outskirts where your battle took place, was taken. What if my army doesn't want to damage such buildings by exactly 38.239% percent each (made up approximate figure)? Yet the building that remains intact is the fortification that I half-razed to the ground getting at the enemies inside. What irony - this is a backwards situation, like your and the enemy army's position are reversed in the battlemap from their strategy map positions. Way to go, whoever made that.

Well I supposed that your army looted the city once you've captured it. That's my best guess!

[Ascarona]

The repair button says that the wall isn't damaged yet when I got attacked, there's a huge hole there. If it's repaired automaticlly, the question is, how long does it take to repair by itself?

Let me explain it differently.

In my battles, when I destroy fort/city walls and by some miracle () happen to lose the fight and then fight the fort/city again with a different army. Then the walls are still fully intact. But then again I do Hard/Hard (or easy/easy with dutch, simply because they should own everyone) (lol ) campaigns so I don't know if that has got anything to do with it.