Walls and Palisades

[beorn]

I would have guessed that city walls and palisades do not stack, but I notice that even if I have walls built, I can still build a palisade. Is this in error?

 

[countjackula]

Nope, not an error. Working as intended.

It's not how I imagine real world walls to work either, but what do I know? In FfH rather than tearing down the wooden goat fence to build a stone wall, they just build the stone wall a little behind the palisade instead . I try to imagine it as bonus reinforcement.

 

[Pyr0mancer]

Actually, defense in depth is a perfectly valid defensive plan. Concentric sets of walls were fairly common, consider what a typical castle town looked like. Byzantium/Constantinople was known for its three massive walls as well. Even if the outer wall is unmanned, it still slows down attackers while you rain all sorts of pleasant things down on them from the inner one.

Also, you could think of it as taking the palisade logs and planting them at an angle instead of vertically.

 

[civ_king]

yeah, infantry would have to be careful and so would cavs cuz impalement sucks so thats extra time u have to slaughter offense