How do you upgrade fortresses?

[CptBloodclot]

Probably a noob question but i've searched and cannot find the answer in these forums or in the manual. So:

How do you upgrade fortresses and castles, ie. from Forest Ramparts > forest fortress > forest castle.

Thank you for any help.

[Edi]

You don't. Not possible. Each nation has a set of forts defined for it, meaning that if you build in terrain A, you will get fort B. Terrain C, fort D and so on.

The only way to get different forts is by casting either Wizard's Tower, Three Red Seconds or one of the other spells that construct a fort (of a specific type).

Edi

[CptBloodclot]

ah okay...that makes sense now...cheers

[Taqwus]

...if you capture a fortress that you don't like, you could destroy it and build one of your own. You'll pay full price and will be dealing with the lack of a fort for a while, so it's not really an 'upgrade'.

Might matter if, say, you're playing a resource-intensive nation and you capture a primitive type with no administrative value.

[Micah]

Still generally going to be better to build one a province over though, unless the captured fortress has very good siting combined with bad admin. LA ermor perhaps. Or any of the nations that can build a swamp city instead of a swamp fort.

Any fort counts as (essentially) admin 50 for the province it's built in, so you'll never get any additional resources out of the province it's on top of.

[Twan]

The fun thing with LA Ermor castles is their 0 supplies, always destroy ermorian castles and rebuilt if you are a living nation, or you'll have bad surprises the day there will be a siege.

[NTJedi]

CptBloodclot said:
How do you upgrade fortresses and castles, ie. from Forest Ramparts > forest fortress > forest castle.




Even tho this doesn't exist within DOM_3... it sounds like a great feature to include within DOM_4.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think it is on the Dom4 list.
The Dom3 implementation of forts still has some work to be done I think before there are enough unique forts for all of the needs in Dom3