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Forts are super-strong defensive structures, and are also used to train a variety of units. Officers, spies, and all gunpowder infantry and siege units are trained from your forts.

While they may seem to be a form of overglorified Siege Workshop, this could hardly be considered close to the truth. While Forts do become the focal point of your gunpowder armies, they also perform a second task, and that is reinforcing your Borders — each new Fort constructed expands your Territory around it, thus making for a nice area-denial weapon to prevent enemies from successfully encroaching on your lands. They are only as strong as the units that fight them are weak, so remember to man them with units that can sally out should the foe bring siege weapons to bear.

Depending on your tech levels and your faction's tech tree, Forts can be upgraded to become more powerful, as will be discussed below.

Castle

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Forts are available once Level 3 Military (Heraldry and code of honour) is researched, and depending on what you have researched, you can upgrade your forts to castles, and towers to keeps and bastions. Forts and Towers are upgraded to Castles and Keeps once FortificationsFortification Fortifications is researched, and can be upgraded again by Asian and Orthodox factions with Imperial Mandate at the Nobles' Court into Strongholds and Keeps, which are immensely strong.

Note, however, that despite being strong, Forts are vulnerable to siege weapons. The trebuchet, having the furthest reach in the entire game, can easily wreck anything with impunity regardless. Of lesser damage caused would be naval units, namely the Siege Galley; Carrack and Lanternas; a Castle with Military Engineering can match a Siege Galley in range; with Bombardment, Carracks are caught. Only a Stronghold with Bombardment can hope to hold off an attack by the Lanternas, and even so, several Lanternas will easily destroy a Stronghold through sheer determination and numbers.

Stronghold

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The Stronghold is the Imperial Mandate-based upgrade of the Castle for China and Mongolia, and represents the powerful defences embodied in the modern form of the Great Wall towards the end of the Ming dynasty in China. As expected, it is stronger, tougher and more powerful than the average Castle, and can pose a challenge to most factions without access to the best bombardment units.

Units trained

Gunpowder infantry

Name Class
Arquebusiers Light gun infantry Musket 17thc.png
Fire Lancers Light gun infantry Firelance TaP.png
Divine Ordnance Division Light gun infantry Musket china tap.png
Landsknecht Arquebusiers Mercenary medium gun infantry Landsknechtarquebus.png
Arquebus Tercio Heavy gun infantry Tercios tap.png
Kapýkulu Marksmen Light gun infantry Janissary TaP.png

Siege machines

Name Class
Culverin Light field gun Culuering ico.png
Bombard Heavy field gun Bombard tap.png
Ocak Cannon Light field gun Basilica tap4 ico.png
Improved Volley Gun Light multiround gun Volleygun.png

Support units

Name Class
Officer Command Officer ron.png
Spy Agent Spy ron.png

Upgrades

Fortification Fortification

Without Fortification, Castles will well fall foul of enemy siege units. Fortification enhance a fort's tactical capabilities as well as its effects on your borders.

NAME GENERAL INFO COST LEADS TO
Fortifications


Fortifications

Good walls make the best neighbours.

  • Prereqs:
    • High Mediaeval Era [2];
    • Level 3: Heraldry and code of Honour Military
  • Increases border push effect of all forts and castles.
  • Increases offensive power and range of all forts and castles.
  • Upgrades Forts to Castles.
  • 150Wealth; 120Ore.png
  • Time to complete: Fast
  • Military Engineering Fortification
  • Citizenship Attrition
Military
Engineering

Military Engineering

A pile of stones can either be a mighty wall or a fearsome weapon — only as long as one knows how to use them as such.

  • Prereqs:
    • FortificationsFortification ;
    • Level 4: Standing Army Military ;
    • Architecture Construction
  • Increases border push effect of all forts and castles.
  • Increases offensive power and range of all forts and castles.

Resource cost:

  • 300Wealth; 240Ore.png
  • Time to complete: Rather fast
Bombardment
Bombardment

"Point this end away from self towards enemy."

Resource cost:

  • 450Wealth; 300Ore.png
  • Time to complete: Medium
  • Centralisation Taxation
  • Quartermasters Logistics
  • Operations Strategy

Strategy Strategy

Strategy upgrades enhance the reliability of spies, and are also required for the creation of generals.

NAME GENERAL INFO COST LEADS TO
Order of
Battle


Order of Battle

Any fool may know to fight, but a fool who picks the right battles and the right weapons is no fool, but is instead a general.

  • 80Wealth; 80Food
  • Time to complete: Fast
Strategy
Strategy
Strategy

"Any man may see the tactics which allows me to win battles, but not the strategy which brings me victory."

—Sun Zi
  • 150Wealth; 150Food
  • Time to complete: Rather fast
  • Operations
  • Supply Logistics
Operations
Operations

Preparedness for war is sometimes far more important than winning a war itself.

  • 300Wealth; 300Food
  • Time to complete: Rather fast
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See also