====== Strongholds ======
A stronghold is either a town, city or fortress. Strongholds control all hexes closer to it than another stronghold.
Some notes on the differences:
===== Town =====
A town is a settlement of **at the very most** tens of thousands of people that doesn’t have permanent fortifications beyond maybe a wooden palisade or simple earthworks. Coastal towns have ports where Transport Ships can be hired.
===== City =====
A city is a settlement of **at the very most** millions of people that is protected by lengths of stone walls, earthworks, redoubts and bastions. Coastal cities have massive ports and docks where all kinds of ships can be hired.
===== Fortress =====
A fortress is a settlement of **at the very most** tens of thousands of people that all live and work with military issues inside an enormous network of moats, bastions, walls, earthworks, abutments, redoubts, ravelins, tenailles, scarps and counterscarps. Usually built to protect important trade routes and provide a garrison to guard nearby bottlenecks in the terrain.
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