Building Forts/Settlements

**Tony S** · August 07, 2010, 05:56 PM

Is it possible to build a fort or settlement where there presently isn't one.
Looked through the manual but couldn't find the info needed.
I'm playing English and a spot next to or at Bordeaux is looking pretty ripe.

Going to blockade those backstabbin' bastaggers next move or two.
My trusted advisors said I should.

Your advice and input is greatly appreciated.
Tony...

**Theseus1234** · August 07, 2010, 06:00 PM

You can build a fort (by clicking on the building icon on an army with a general in the field), but it doesn't serve any purpose besides providing a military stronghold in the middle of nowhere. If you want to add a settlement, you'll have to edit the game files to add it. For that, you should visit the mod workshop.

**SturmChurro** · August 07, 2010, 06:25 PM

You can't build a settlement but you can build a fort pretty much wherever you want and in some of the kingdoms campaigns once fort is built its permanent.

**Tony S** · August 08, 2010, 07:05 AM

Hmm...
A lightly armed fort would be a likely target for their army. Then I can hit them in the field.

Unfortunately the ai probably doesn't suffer from attrition the way we do.
Many thanks for your input.
T...

**Old Geezer** · August 08, 2010, 09:29 AM

Forts are great for blocking enemy movement, especially reinforcements. The AI will not often assault them if there is a longer way around and it does not seem to realize very often, if ever, that it can just move next to the fort on one turn and then move one space the next turn and the next to go through a line of forts or through a narrow spot. (Maybe the AI can't think 3 turns ahead even in such limited circumstances.) Forts also make great traps, because if the AI army gets inside and you have some catapults or artillery the carnage is dramatic at times -especially if the Timurids have elephants in there that run amok.

**Tony S** · August 08, 2010, 10:05 AM

the carnage is dramatic at times

Ah, a devious mind. I like it.

Thanks
Tony (another old geezer)

**Ishiro** · December 30, 2010, 01:22 PM

In the M2TW Crusader's Campaign.
I know that you can build a fort in the middle of a road to affect your enemy's trade income BUT if you build one in one of your own trade roads, will it affect your income?. I thought to do so because that would make that fort a very valuable target for the AI, but would it affect the wagon's traffic (trade) of my faction?

**Double A** · December 30, 2010, 01:49 PM

Originally Posted by Logistic's Man

I know that you can build a fort in the middle of a road to affect your enemy's trade income BUT if you build one in one of your own trade roads, will it affect your income?. I thought to do so because that would make that fort a very valuable target for the AI, but would it affect the wagon's traffic (trade) of my faction?

Uh... the only armies that negatively affect trade are brigands.

The only thing forts are for is giving you a thin wall of wood between you and your enemy. It helps a teeny tiny bit against horse archers.

**FootSoldier** · December 30, 2010, 02:49 PM

Do enemy armies not block trade if they stand on the road between the port and the town?

They certainly blockade a port if they actually stand on the port, though the AI seems rarely to do this ...

**Double A** · December 30, 2010, 03:41 PM

The only ways to block trade as the PC:

Besieging a city
Placing an army on an enemy port
blockading a port with a fleet

You can cause devastation to the land if you just sit your army in enemy territory, which semi-permanently (it's not permanent, but I don't know how long it lasts) causes damage to the income of the region.