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<blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 8987550" data-attributes="member: 6750306"><p>Right, so, basically, the construction of the fort and surrounding town are going to depend mainly on two things...</p><p></p><p>1. How much financial support and backing the commander has to accomplish this...</p><p>and</p><p>2. The logistics of getting materials to the site that can't be sourced locally.</p><p></p><p>If the commander is backed by people or government offices with lots of resources who really want this project to happen, your fort and town are going to look a lot more like the later examples of Roman construction provided. If the materials needed for construction can be sourced locally, that makes it easier, but one thing the Romans were known for is not letting little things like topography or logistics get in the way of them building for their greater glory, lol.</p><p> (As mentioned above, a LOT of major European roads still follow the routes established by older Roman roads.)</p><p></p><p>Given that this place is still under military authority, the commander shouldn't have too many problems with finding physical labor (even skilled workers) for the expansion, although, having just finished a civil war, some of those workers may have some prickly feelings about having been conscripted into government service.</p><p>You'll also want to answer questions like whether the government is actively recruiting (or even subsidizing) new settlers for the town, and how the settlers feel about starting their new lives... (Are they starting over after losing everything in the war? Folks from the losing side trying to get away from the winners by heading out to the frontier? People with limited prospects back home looking to strike it rich, or alternately, rich people looking to corner new markets and get richer? Etc., etc....)</p><p>On a related note, one of the things you'll need to decide is how the majority of the veterans being posted to the fort feel about the just-finished war. A fort full of exiled malcontents and conscripts guarding a powder keg of disgruntled ex-rebel townies is going to be a whole different kettle of fish than a well-oiled and efficient fort and town run with exemplary military discipline and wisdom, and how the commander chooses to deal with the soldiers and the civilian populace (dictator vs. benevolent authoritarian) will dictate a whole lot about the general feel and character of the town.</p><p></p><p></p><p>(You're probably not familiar with the old 1994 tv series <em>Hawkeye</em> starring Lee Horsley and Linda Carter, but it's a spin-off/continuation of the James Fennimore Cooper novels set in a military fort during the French and Indian War and quite a few episodes have side plots that you can mine for ideas about running a frontier military fort and the sort of day-to-day issues that come up.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mad_Jack, post: 8987550, member: 6750306"] Right, so, basically, the construction of the fort and surrounding town are going to depend mainly on two things... 1. How much financial support and backing the commander has to accomplish this... and 2. The logistics of getting materials to the site that can't be sourced locally. If the commander is backed by people or government offices with lots of resources who really want this project to happen, your fort and town are going to look a lot more like the later examples of Roman construction provided. If the materials needed for construction can be sourced locally, that makes it easier, but one thing the Romans were known for is not letting little things like topography or logistics get in the way of them building for their greater glory, lol. (As mentioned above, a LOT of major European roads still follow the routes established by older Roman roads.) Given that this place is still under military authority, the commander shouldn't have too many problems with finding physical labor (even skilled workers) for the expansion, although, having just finished a civil war, some of those workers may have some prickly feelings about having been conscripted into government service. You'll also want to answer questions like whether the government is actively recruiting (or even subsidizing) new settlers for the town, and how the settlers feel about starting their new lives... (Are they starting over after losing everything in the war? Folks from the losing side trying to get away from the winners by heading out to the frontier? People with limited prospects back home looking to strike it rich, or alternately, rich people looking to corner new markets and get richer? Etc., etc....) On a related note, one of the things you'll need to decide is how the majority of the veterans being posted to the fort feel about the just-finished war. A fort full of exiled malcontents and conscripts guarding a powder keg of disgruntled ex-rebel townies is going to be a whole different kettle of fish than a well-oiled and efficient fort and town run with exemplary military discipline and wisdom, and how the commander chooses to deal with the soldiers and the civilian populace (dictator vs. benevolent authoritarian) will dictate a whole lot about the general feel and character of the town. (You're probably not familiar with the old 1994 tv series [I]Hawkeye[/I] starring Lee Horsley and Linda Carter, but it's a spin-off/continuation of the James Fennimore Cooper novels set in a military fort during the French and Indian War and quite a few episodes have side plots that you can mine for ideas about running a frontier military fort and the sort of day-to-day issues that come up.) [/QUOTE]
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