Reasons to build Walls

[Alchemind]

All good reasons to build walls. Now, how many times are those reasons applicable?

If playing pro-actively, very little, I've found. :/

 

[lindsay40k]

I guess that Engineer has something to do with the SpaceElevator wonder.:mischief

cute^^

Even then, I'd probably settle in Ironworksville to build two SS Engines and launch.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I guess that Engineer has something to do with the SpaceElevator wonder.

Speaking of walls,
Even the Celtic duns are almost useless. Maybe good for the AI.
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cute^^

Pursuing space elevator will actively slow down your time. It's easily the biggest laughingstock wonder in the game. I'd rather build walls in every city I own than bother teching for that trash while trying to win space.

 

[Manco Capac]

^
IMM or Deity + Internet + Robotics = Space Elevator + Mechanized Infantry.

 

[jarhead_leif]

Pursuing space elevator will actively slow down your time. It's easily the biggest laughingstock wonder in the game. I'd rather build walls in every city I own than bother teching for that trash while trying to win space.

I thought walls get obsolete when gunpowder arrives. Then why would you bother building them?

And I say, I only built the SpaceElevator once (when I was on chieftain stage). I was just giving my idea why that tech gives a free GE.

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[jarhead_leif]

Then why would you bother building them?

Or better yet, how can you be able to build em?
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[Rusty Edge]

I think that castles should serve as jails once you have the tech.

 

[Manco Capac]

To lament.

 

[TheWilltoAct]

To lament.

Lmao!

 

[noto2]

Walls are useful in the early game, particularly for a PRO leader. It takes catapults a long time to knock them down, that buys you time to react to a surprise invasion and get your forces in position. I guess you could say the same thing about castles...they do take a LOOOOOONG time to bombard down. Personally I never build them but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt to have one or two in key cities if you get engineering early.
I can't tell you how many times I'm fighting a war on one side of my empire and my neighbour on the other side gets jealous and wants to join the party. Even though my army is huge and I could take both on, it is not evenly distributed. A couple of turns of bombardment is a couple of turns to whip/draft/run units to where they're needed, it can be enough to save a city, and remember that the AI does raze cities from time to time, you might not have the chance to take it back.