Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

Make your own island in a bay... never worry about raids again. If you think trolls and draugers are bad.. you have a rude awakening ahead of you.. I get tired of the threat of my hard work being destroyed.. on an island I don't have to worry.

I'm almost an island now - I built on the shore and put a deeep moat in on 3 sides. As I add to my base I bring in truckloads of rock and extend outwards away from land. I assume you're alluding to the airborn menaces that start to appear once I deal with Bonemass ??? Not sure what I can do about them. Beef up my roof structure for sure.

I kinda like the idea of putting a gap in my bridge, but then again those bloody draugr archers just take long range potshots at the gate(and me) making it somewhat redundant. No..... the more I think about it the more a portal seems the way to go. I'm making it so it takes a jump or two to actually get to it - I'm constructing it atop a giant rock which the game kindly provided me, perched atop 3 others. I think it's supposed to be a grave or something (obvviously the devs were inspired by Stonehenge). I'm burying a workbench underneath, slapping a floor over that and then fencing around it with the pointy sticks so the peckers can never ever get at it.

Honestly, I freaking LOVE this. The games' sadistic mechanics are forcing me to do more of something I enjoy anyway - building neat stuff. I'm envisioning guard towers for the eventual air assaults