Topic: Expanding territory

Hi,

If I expand my territory by building a military building, and later on destroy that military building, the expanding of the territory still exists. Would it be better, at destroying a military building, to reduce the territory also.

I know, that is the case in settlers. I sometimes destroyed a military building bij accident, and all the buildings in the area also were destroyed. In widelands, all buildings stay intact.

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Shure I know there are differences. But you need a military building to expand, and if you demolish that building, you dont loose the land. In that way, you can expand your land by building just one military building. Build a military building, and after expanding, demolish it and build the next one and so on.

I have no problem with that, I just wanted to know if it was ment that way.

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Note that you can keep expanding with "a single" building, but there is one drawback with it. When you (or another player) build a military buildings, it will conquer all the land within that building's radius except the land which is already within an existing military building's radius. I.e. if an opponent builds a castle next to your border, he's going to grab a huge chunk of land for free. With few military buildings defending the borders or an attack from an unexpected direction, you can easily lose a lot of land due to enemy expansion because you can't build up your defenses fast enough.

So while you may be able to expand rapidly (especially with dismantling and reuse of materials ), will you be able to maintain your kingdom once you run into enemies?

I do have to admit I was surprised to not lose the surrounding area the first time I demolished a military building though, so this might not be obvious at first to people who have previously played the Settlers games.

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