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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5145147" data-attributes="member: 18253">That's not the end of the economic discussion by any stretch though. Fine- walls are a good barrier for many threats but what exactly do you build? Given a set pot-o-money for military expenditures, do you build a wooden or small stone fort and spend the rest on a more mobile strike force, perhaps in a fantasy setting also paying for mages or more exotic troops? Or do you spend most of it on an elaborate concentric castle? Degree matters. I doubt fortifications go away, they have their place. But they may not look much like castles of the high middle ages. They might look more like Roman fortifications- often low cost temporary forts, sometimes turned to stone but whose strength lay in a significant garrison. While I like big castles and use them in my setting, if I were a real king in a fantasy setting, I would expect that my budget would be skewed away from big static defenses since I would find militarily justified ways to spend money on options a medieval ruler, for example, did not have. But without a better definition of the setting, it seems impossible to take this much further.</blockquote>