Most defensible city ever?

[Iberian Husky]

So I found this gem of a location for a city. It may not be the best for growth, but it looks like it would be absolute hell for an enemy to take. Also it serves as a bridge between two oceans, so it looks like it could be an excellent trade hub.

So, was it worth it to settle there?

 

[Callonia]

How? I can just bring ships and bombard it from the water.

It is defensive site in classical era, but becomes more vulnerable from renaissance and later.

 

[Iberian Husky]

How? I can just bring ships and bombard it from the water.

It is defensive site in classical era, but becomes more vulnerable from renaissance and later.

True, but I plan on putting some citadels and stationing some cannons/artillery on that narrow stretch of land between the city and the mountains, so I should be able to maintain a bottleneck for both land and sea. Since it's located on a bay on both sides, ranged naval units shouldn't really be a problem. If they attack from the west, the whole thing is a giant bottleneck, and if they attack from the east, then they have to deal with naval reinforcements from Krakow pushing them into the bottleneck from behind.

 

[TheologiaCrucis]

Name it Moat Cailin.

 

[Browd]

3 battleships with range and a destroyer -- that city is toast.

 

[Primacide]

Yeah, except your screenshot doesn't show that three tiles to the left is Delhi.

And Gandhi just built manhattan.

 

[Laurwin]

Some of the most defensible cities in a legitimate game, were in the deity Inca "challenge" on this forum. Challenge is in speechmarks because the start was picture perfect for Inca. But I guess that was the purpose hehheh...

River valleys, riverside hills next to mountain ranges etc... That was just beautiful Inca land. Trying to attack into hillside Inca would not be easy, ignore terrain cost on hills, and Inca can spam roads free of charge into all hill terrain. With those restricting mountain pass chokepoints it will be nigh impossible, I say. You'd need bombers to push past units. And Inca could put their own fighters and AA guns. One workable solution is always a nuke, though.

Or you could try to go around the mountain range... Like what the Persians did it at Thermopylae, in the end.

 

[reddishrecue]

That city is perfect victim for enemy naval ships. That city is vulnerable to attack from 2 sides and allows plenty of space for ranged naval units to bombard its defenses.

 

[nemesis464]

Most defensible I've seen is when you get a ring of mountains with one missing so you can only attak from 1 tile

 

[mclericp]

Most defensible I've seen is when you get a ring of mountains with one missing so you can only attak from 1 tile

dynamites artillery
it is gonna be fried in a few shots

 

[Ryoga]

It is a good spot to found a city, certainly, especially for the fact that it connects two seas.
However, most defensible city ever? Far from that.

dynamites artillery
it is gonna be fried in a few shots

"Most defensible ever" =/= "impregnable"

there is no way to found a city that is completely immune to either battleships or artillery, but I'd rather take my chances against artillery given the fact that the former are way faster. Port cities do have, however, the advantage that they can garrison an additional unit.

Even so a completely landlocked city is generally better than a port city for defense purposes. Being surrounded by hills makes it better, having one side covered by mountains even better as the enemies can only come from one side.

of course once airplanes come into the picture, any kind of terrain becomes irrelevant.

 

[phillipwyllie]

8 points of melee attack and 10 points of ranged attack, not very defensible in my opinion. And that is before indirect fire.

 

[CraigMak]

A defensible city is one that's not near the water and surrounded by mountains. This is not even above average in defensiveness.

 

[Sharples]

1. Totally defenseable and secured in single-player.

2. Easy picking in MultiPlayer.

 

[joncnunn]

So I found this gem of a location for a city. It may not be the best for growth, but it looks like it would be absolute hell for an enemy to take. Also it serves as a bridge between two oceans, so it looks like it could be an excellent trade hub.

Not against humans, 5 Frigates + 2 Privateers will do the trick. (I'm counting 5 water tiles 2 hexes away from the city.)

It will be even easier to take with Battleships, when they'll bombard from 3 hexes away. Coming from the west will be more attractive to them if you don't guard it.

 

[TheD3rp]

1. Play as Carthage.
2. Get a great general.
3. Find a tile surrounded by mountains.
4. Settle a city on that tile.
5. Now you have the most defensible city ever.

 

[Sharples]

1. Play as Carthage.
2. Get a great general.
3. Find a tile surrounded by mountains.
4. Settle a city on that tile.
5. Now you have the most defensible city ever.

If I am right the only way to get to that city would be via Helicopter and they can't take cities. So the only way really across is destroying the city with nukes. Seems defenseable, but rather pointless.

 

[Tabarnak]

1. Totally defenseable and secured in single-player.

2. Easy picking in MultiPlayer.

This.

You need to surround your city with more cities to get advantage of the canal.

 

[Illianor123]

I had a city on a two tile wide lake with mountains to the sides and hills behind (as well as the rest of my nation as the Incancs. That was defensible because they couldn't used ranged till artillery and air units and any melee had to embark on the two tiles possible tiles which were both un range of the city (and garrisoned units). I will try to find a screen shot, but that was my most defensible city. Just sink the embarked units every turns, only XCOM could maybe take it (but the lake and mountains would reduce attacking places) but I won science before XCOM became available.

I would go far enough as to say it was impregnable, except from within my own nations, but that was surrounded by mountains and defensive cities. And if they managed that I would have lost anyway.

 

[DarkestOnion]

A fortified city falls quickly to a 6 Battleships, 2 Carriers, 6 Bombers, and 2 Fighters. If your Defense if over 100 watch out for my Atom Bombs launched from Carrier #3 in the naval Rearguard as well