Forts (or "Why the automation loves 'em")

[Molon Labe]

Actually, I don't think you do get the resource. I went to build an attack submarine and it was greyed out saying it requires uranium. I think that's odd, I know I have uranium down in the corner of my map. I go to look at it and there's a nice boxy fort around it, but no mine.

So I'm pretty sure you don't get the resource with just a fort.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Forts act like cities in getting resources,

You both need a certain tech AND a (certain improvement OR city OR fort)
to get a resource

so to access
sugar you need Calendar AND (plantation or fort or City)
uranium you need Fission AND (mine or fort or city)
[of course you also need to See the resource]

 

[anandus]

Forts act like cities in getting resources,

You both need a certain tech AND a (certain improvement OR city OR fort)
to get a resource

so to access
sugar you need Calendar AND (plantation or fort or City)
uranium you need Fission AND (mine or fort or city)
[of course you also need to See the resource]

So if you build a fort on a sugar-resource it automatically also functions as a plantation as soon as you get calendar? That can come in quite handy, actually

 

[Molon Labe]

Honest, by the time I saw uranium and could build attack subs, I had the mining tech.

Unless I'm totally mistaken and misremembering myself, I still say that the fort does not automatically grant you the resource.

 

[KrikkitTwo]

Honest, by the time I saw uranium and could build attack subs, I had the mining tech.

Unless I'm totally mistaken and misremembering myself, I still say that the fort does not automatically grant you the resource.

Uranium also needs the Fission tech

 

[V. Soma]

Actually, I don't think you do get the resource. I went to build an attack submarine and it was greyed out saying it requires uranium. I think that's odd, I know I have uranium down in the corner of my map. I go to look at it and there's a nice boxy fort around it, but no mine.

So I'm pretty sure you don't get the resource with just a fort.

do you have road from the fort to a city?

 

[anandus]

Just had a look to see if forts do work as resource-improvements, and they do.

I started a little game, build a worker and researched mathematics, but no animal husbandry.
Then I build a fort+road to a cow. Nothing happens. (within cultural borders, outside fat cross)
Researched animal husbandry and I get the resource (even though the terrain-tooltip still says 'requires pasture').

A pasture was 4 turns to build, a fort 10 turns.

But it could work as an insta-resource-thingy.
Eg. If you have mathematics, idle workers and no calendar yet, one could already build forts where plantations are needed and when you hit calendar you get al the plantation resource instantly

Or uranium after physics, build fort and when you hit fission you have instant uranium, although you'd probably already have a mine there or something
I don't know if it's worth it, though, but it could be handy, I think?

 

[Molon Labe]

Uranium also needs the Fission tech

Ah ha, that would explain it then. I stand corrected.