How much do you use forts?

[LordFrostbite]

How often do you guys use forts? I dont really see an advantage to them...what are ur stragts with them? Usually I just make a few forts up ahead of my city just to use as perminate scouts occasionally but other then that there pretty useless to me. Am i missing out on somthing?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Occasionally to good effect ...

I've played many a game without build any whatsoever, but they're occasionally handy to hold on to some strategic point - a resource or chokepoint, normally.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

I don't use them that much unless there is a great need for them.

 

[Resistor]

I haven't built one yet in any of my games. I guess I would use them when I would need to desperately defend a certain land bridge that leads to my empire.

 

[dowski]

I use them occasionally. They are nice to put near a border and stick some cannons/artillery in along with some defensive units.

dowski

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I have only used forts once. And that was only when my victory was guarenteed and I just wanted to build a wall of them across my border with India.

 

[NeonInfusion]

I've used it once, on my border to keep out the English.

 

[blix]

I use them to create the Magino line!

Here's how I do it:

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Key=Artillery
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Keep a gap between the line because it's natural for the AI when attacking to go for the undefended spot and when they go through the gap you can bombard them to their to lower their health then send out an extra unit protecting the artillery from the fort to kill the weakend unit.I use this tactic all the time when I'm playing in warlord or higher.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I use them when I get in late industrial and my workers don't have anything to do.

 

[bkwrm79]

Often holding a key mountain square is essential. Especially if that square is within two squares of an enemy city, then in addition to helping to protect your city, fortifying it makes for an excellent artillery base.

If I'm garrisoning a border because someone keeps sending people into my territory, I'll fortify hills and mountains, and garrison with good defenders. I put obsolete units into grasslands, and don't fortify them. Unless there's a grassland square in my borders within two squares of an enemy city, and no mountain or hill square that close.

 

[puglover]

Forts aren't useful in my opinion. In peacetime, when the rival civs try to move settlers through my territory, it's always fun to make a wall of workers and block the settler.

 

[sandabella]

Look like I'm on my own, I love using forts, but I hasten to add, I don't win too often either;-)

 

[truckingpete]

Barely use them...

 

[cgannon64]

Barricades really came in handy in my last war. Luckily I didn't need to use the most handy feature - stopping all enemy units upon entry - but if the line didn't collapse, my bombers would have crushed them when they stopped in the barricade.



EDIT: They weren't totally necessary, but since I wanted to fighth a slower, air power-focussed war, they did help.

 

[JazzToucan]

Just takes too long to make -- waste of a worker's time. I don't use them outside of the rare instance that people mentioned of a "choke point."

 

[Warwind]

I use forts when I have railroaded most of my territory and have right of passage with another civ. Helpful to prevent rop abuse’s.

 

[NewWaver]

I like to use them on resource squares, and along my border on strategic terrain.

 

[Brewster]

I used to use them along my borders, but my borders were constantly expanding shortly thereafter (a nice benefit of war). Now I think they are a waste of workers.

 

[Turner]

Use them sometimes. Actually, in the past five games I've used them at least twice. Once was to guard my Iron in a border town that was dangerously close to the AI, (and we were always at war), another time was again in a border town that was also a bottleneck. The tile was orginally jungle. Cleared that, put the fortress on it, then forested the tile. Made a nice little defensive bonus.

 

[Globetrotter]

I've used them once...
I had reproduced the atlantic wall... and posted one infantry on
each tile, just for the fun of it...
But i normally don't use them, as i am more on the offense...
(Isn't offense the best defense?)