Posts from Tactics for Rampart.

Gunnar seemed to write well, didn't he? Doesn't he describe taking out outposts, gnomish settlements, and crypts with Rampart troops? If not, we need to look for it; I've seen it in different places.

There is no universally best Castle. You can win with any. It all depends on the player and the map. The balance in the game is good, and on random maps, it is maintained by the fact that today you might get a bad starting location, and tomorrow a good one. And it depends on the player how they use this starting location.

What I meant was that even a brilliant map won't help a player who doesn't know how to use it.
I think this turned into a pointless argument. Although it would be wrong to ignore messages like: One town easily defeats another town....

To form a correct opinion about the capabilities of a particular faction, you need to read reports, as you said (let's switch to "you"). But even more benefit can be gained by playing against a strong player and reviewing their save files, preferably daily ones. That's how I more or less learned to play as Fortress and even achieved several victories against very strong players.

Now I will try to analyze the strategies for playing as Rampart in this way. I consider it a quite strong faction, capable of successfully opposing all others. And

Castles and Ramparts usually have the best resource spawns.

I don't think I'll be saying anything new, as the templates already contain the numbers indicating how many objects will be present in each spawn point. I mean that each object in the template has a certain number assigned to it, and the guarding force for the objects corresponds to this number. Thus, we can estimate what might be inside a Pandora's Box by looking at its guarding force. Well, I think everyone knows that...

Each spawn point is unique, and each has structures that appear more often (i.e., are prioritized).
For example, on grassy terrain, there will be dwarven mines, outposts, and stables...
On swamp terrain, there will be crypts, outposts, and dancing elves.
On barbarian terrain, lakes (which double magic power and add an extra turn) appear most often.
On necropolis terrain, there are also crypts....
Well, and so on...

Is this information based on empirical evidence or does it have some theoretical basis?

This is just post-game information for me (after playing on different maps, you know what and where appears...) - but if I remember correctly, somewhere it was written what and where drops... I don't remember exactly where and when...

Thus, we can determine the approximate contents of Pandora's Box based on its guard. Well, I think everyone knows that...