I recommend everyone take a walk around the place where our new player city will be going up. Imagine the walls are up and you are the enemy... How will you be able to approach? Where would you regroup? Most likely place to put your siege engines? Ask yourself these questions and that will help you spot where we will be needing defense.

WEST
For the most part the mountain walls give us a 180 degree arc of protection to the west and part north part south directions.

SOUTH
To the south is a large field with boars (BOAR FIELD). From that direction I could only find two paths up the slope toward our city. One is a ramp like spot almost directly south of our keep, the other is a small path to the west. These two paths merge into a single point of weakness to our south (BOAR PASS). Otherwise most of the south approach is steep enough to prevent direct attack.

NORTH
To the north of us is the entrances to the border lands and a small bowl with cows and such in it (NORTH BOWL). It would be hard to get into this area to our North without being spotted.

EAST
Our east is a gradual slope down to a small stream (EAST SLOPE). There are a couple bridges crossing the stream (NORTH BRIDGE, SOUTH BRIDGE). I know the stream does not stop troops, but perhaps siege engines are moved into position and must come across the bridges, or they may just be built right up against us as in other games. The bridges may become choke points but I suspect not.

FAR EAST
Farther out to the east of us are a couple places where scouts could remain hidden and see a large swath of the approaches to the city. We will have to name these areas for quick and clear communication. If we all know some named reference points on the map a scout could say: "10 troops moving west across north farm" and we all would know what he was referring to. That sure beats trying to say: "Some guys walking at coords 1067,568"


Anyone have some ideas or suggestions?