Cryodiil hadn't seen war for ages, why would they need them?

Cryodiil hadn't seen war for ages, why would they need them?

AS I said: I'd think that the Legion would keep at least some of the forts functional for as a waypoint of caravans or legoneers patroling the roads. Besides from the Oblivion Invasion, there are a ton of creatures and bandits, I'd think that they'd know that abandoning them would mean a new place for them. And why not keep at least a couple functional, that way the Legion could send guards from a specific fort nearest to an incident's location, providing a better defense for Cyrodiil. Remember the Legion sent a group to for Sutch (I think thats the name) to defend it from the Daedra. Why would they need to protect the fort, if they had any intentions of using the fort in emergency situations they'd have to clear it out first.

Maybe wear and tear from previous wars and the passing years then?

I think they were from the often overlooked Cuhlecain Baroque Period when it was vogue for noblemen to build follies in the form of ruined "dungeons" and then infest them with all sorts of dangerous characters.

I'd think that the Legion would keep at least some of the forts functional for as a waypoint of caravans or legoneers patroling the roads. Why are they all abandon?

The absence of functional forts in game doesn't mean that they are not present in "reality". There is at least Battlehorn Castle.

Tamriel is the idea of a place and as real as all other ideas of places. Which is quite real actually. How many people know New York but have never been there? Or if you happen to be living there, how many people know Paris but have never been there? Yet you know almost everything about this city through movies, pop-culture, through references in literature and history.

So Tamriel is as real as the city you've never visited. The games reproduce aspects of the idea of Tamriel but they are not the actual Tamriel because they all are obviously flawed in many ways. As such the games are another element through which you know Tamriel and should be treated as everything else that references a city you've never seen. When you see something in the game that would makes little sense -like the absence of werewolves- realize that it is only imperfect depiction of Tamriel and not the cold hard truth.

What good is protecting a province if your soldiers aren't mobile. What if a person was being robbed a mile down the road? You'd never see them. Yet, here would be an entire fortification of drunken soldiers laughing and helping "merchants" and "traders" unpack their scrolls and other personal prefects. It makes sense they'd retire from the traditional bases or whatever, and have soldiers patrolling a perimeter.

I thought alot of the bases were built during the Reman/Potentate Dynasty, but I guess not...

Where do you think those patrols would be sent from?
The local fort garrison, that's where.
They were. According to loading screen texts, at least. Whatever good those are.

Anyway, in http://www.gamesas.com/bgsforums/index.php?showtopic=783203&st=0 I went way over the line of what's reasonable when trying to establish when the forts were abandoned. Less than 100 years ago, it seems.

...God. That thread... :shakehead:

Not necessarily. I remember, while playing Oblivion, running into inns where Imperial Legion horses were left waiting outside. It would be like deployment. The soldiers wouldn't be stationed anywhere except everywhere. Wherever there is cover is where you'd find them. As long as it bordered the IC.

Although, stationing your troops thin across the country, in places where they are most likely not needed, does not seem like a good strategy.

Now, if Cyrodiil had to worry about invasions from surounding provinces(wink wink), than that would make a little more sense having them stationed around the province's borders.