Confused on fort takeing

[lukemax]

Hi all

I know you can attack forts through land, anyway im attacking the French at Oxbay, i have +4 officers and 8 men, i get into the fort and tell the majesty aid that im takeing over and then french start to attack, then thats it im running around like a headless chicken for 1/2 hour killing the french and nothing remotely looks like im winning or even takeing it over, Am i doing it right or am i doing something wrong?

Thx
Joergen

 

[Pieter Boelen]

The way it works is you have to talk to a civilian in the forts. These characters are generated randomly. With a lot of luck, you will encounter a civilian with such a position that he can surrender the fort. However, he might not always want to do this. If he doesn't want to, yet more soldiers will come to attack you. The only way to do it is to keep trying and trying.

You can change the FORT_RAIDSUCCESS chance in PROGRAM\BuildSettings.h. Increasing that value will make the chance that the civilian does want to surrender the fort larger. If you set it to 100, the civilian will always surrender the fort to you if you ask him to. Provided, of course, that you are talking to the right civilian.

 

[lukemax]

I set to 90 but that didnt work now 100, still doesnt work, what is the correct civilian because its sure no the man sent from the war minister even on 100 he will not surrendor, is it another guy then? maybe the govenor?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I don't recall exactly. It should be some sort of "officer of His Majesty's envoy" or something like that.

 

[Vengeance]

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I don't recall exactly. It should be some sort of "officer of His Majesty's envoy" or something like that.
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i have had them surrender the fort, but what is supposed to happen after that? do u get money or something?

 

[Vengeance]

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I don't recall exactly. It should be some sort of "officer of His Majesty's envoy" or something like that.
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i have had them surrender the fort, but what is supposed to happen after that? do u get money or something?
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never mind i know , same as taking it from the sea

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You can also change the nation of the town through the dialog file. So you can capture Greenford and make it a Dutch town. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />

 

[Vengeance]

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You can also change the nation of the town through the dialog file. So you can capture Greenford and make it a Dutch town. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="icon_mrgreen1.gif" />
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thats good but u only want to do that if your current mission is to sail to that locked island and kill the gov otherwise you will mess up the main stroy (or so it says)