Having universal access to units or buildings that perform similarly to each other is always nice for some easy balancing, which comes around at discussing forts.
All civs have some sort of Outpost, but not all have a kidn of Fort.
There was actually already an old post about this, might as well drop the reference here:
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Anyway, originally, I imagine forts weren’t added for Haudenosaunee or Lakota since they were either nomad or never got around building massive defensive layouts like such (Lakota built tepees and Haude built longhouses, literally just houses).
Walls were a thing though, the war huts are literally houses surrounded by walls to make them look “outpost-y”.
As for Japan, idk, they already have a big castle in the regicide game-mode, they could’ve used that.
They could still get around the “historical accuracy” and just give them some assets that are already in-game, like they did with Aztecs giving them the “American Citadel” in age 3, which shouldn’t be a fort since it’s more of a temple irl lol (Still pretty cool though, inaccuracy and all).
So…
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For Haude:
They could make a BIG longhouse with high walls (Looking like a mini village).
And call it something like “Chiefs garrison”.
Let it fire arrows like the Incan Stronghold.
Give it a special quirk, like working as a Japanese dojo, producing infantry or cavalry every few minutes. -
For Lakota:
It’d be more of a stretch on the nomad side, but they could have more of an entrenchement, inside a ton of teepees and tower palisades surrounded by medium walls and spikes (Nothing a nomad couldn’t build if they tried to hold a position).
Call it something like “Great redoubt”.
The special attack could be a FAST fire rate of arrows (Visually making sense, since there are lots of towers in it).
And the special ability could be firing even faster as the “fort” loses HP (Similar to the Yoruba cavalry).
I’d find that pretty fun to play with idk, but someone who actually knows the cultures should check on this though hahah, I’m no historian.