Oh yeah, forgot to speak about location. There's a map lying around here somewhere right?

I'd like to find a location near a river preferably. Since naval travel is implemented in this game owning a river will actually be valuable. I'd like to have a fort on the mouth of a river, and our capital further up river and a little bit away from the actual river.

The reason for this is that if we just place our territory inland and our enemies control the mouth of the river we'd have to fight every time we want to go to sea. Even if a neutral guild controls the mouth, they may charge a toll for being allowed to peacefully enter and leave the river. On the other hand, if we control the mouth we can do the same thing.

A fort at the mouth would ensure that we can defend that territory.

On the other hand, having our city inland protects it a little bit more; if it were to be on the delta any ship coming from any direction could attack it. If we were to place it very far upstream we'd have ample warning of an incoming attack, and they'd only be coming from one direction.

Maybe having the capital on a mountain or hill would be the best option strategically (or maybe on some sort of peninsula in a large lake or something like that where we can make sure that all foot soldiers would come from one direction and they wouldn't have access to boats with which they could flank us.

BoS Archon
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