having touble grasping the basics

[Laurwin]

I still think the auto trade workers make a poor choice in building forts however, as forts take much longer to build than the relevant improvement. Do they build forts over oil before combustion btw?
Shame auto workers don't prebuild forts under existing improvments, that would be a very handy feature!

@Comrade forts in BTS can do a lot of useful things, ranging from connecting resource to acting as ports for overseas trade to working as ship canals. Theres a guide here. The most rare useful job for them in my experience is oddly enough land combat.

omg, million dollar question, do you need the combustion tech literally for tanks or is it just access to oil resource and industrialism tech?

okay so I checked civilopedia and it said as requirements only: rifling, industrialism, and oil, wonder if it works though... the fort on oil thing...

 

[Ghpstage]

omg, million dollar question, do you need the combustion tech literally for tanks or is it just access to oil resource and industrialism tech?

okay so I checked civilopedia and it said as requirements only: rifling, industrialism, and oil, wonder if it works though... the fort on oil thing...

The fort won't access the oil before combustion anyway, I meant it would be nice for auto workers to slap one on top for access to oil the turn its researched, which I don't think they do... .
You can make tanks with oil and no combustion, but good luck etting trades that arent vassals. Gotta wonder what makes those tanks go though!

 

[Laurwin]

uhm, but oil is revealed by scientific method right? Sure you can research industrialism without combustion?

 

[Lord Parkin]

I still think the auto trade workers make a poor choice in building forts however, as forts take much longer to build than the relevant improvement.

Except Oil wells... they take a comparative amount of time to build to Forts.

uhm, but oil is revealed by scientific method right? Sure you can research industrialism without combustion?

No, Industrialism doesn't require Combustion (it's Plastic that does).

 

[FlyinJohnnyL]

I'm pretty sure your workers DO build forts on top of oil as soon as you discover it.

 

[Laurwin]

well I tested it today, the fort on oil trick does save you the worker action for the well that would only be available by combustion, so fort on oil does give you the oil immediately after combustion tech.

 

[Lord Parkin]

well I tested it today, the fort on oil trick does save you the worker action for the well that would only be available by combustion, so fort on oil does give you the oil immediately after combustion tech.

Yep, indeed. It's great for saving time when you urgently need to get out an oil-based navy (or tanks/planes).