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-====== Fortress Battles ======
-===== Blackboard =====
-The play can roam the world and capture outposts.
-Outpost can be reinforced
-A Fortress protects the outpost. It stores gathered resources and maybe expensive production facilities.
-A fortress contains a Spawn Crystal, that can spawn minions to protect the fortress. (todo: rename spawn crystal to something more ingame)
-Spawn crystal has an amount of energy, which is consumed by spawning minions and other tasks it performs.
-The crystal also supports the creatures existing on the battlefield.
-The attacker also brings a spawn crystal, which performs the same functionality. When one of the crystal runs out of energy, the battle is over.
-This will not happen in the common way 'YOU LOST'. The run-out crystal will simply stop spawning and providing energy to the combatants,
-causing them to loose power (and die in case of minions). This way the battle is lost in a more gameplay-featured way.
-It also allows for features like retreating.
-The Players fighting in the battle will also drain from the energy of the crystal. This way it might be possible to fight wars with different player setup:
-  * Battle of 2 players capturing an empty fortress. The fortress' crystal will spawn more minions then the attacking crystal, which should cause a balance in the battle
-  * When in 1v1 or 2v2, minion count will be equal, but 1v1 will have more than 2v2
-This system implies that Players can't cast spells from their own energy. The Fortress Battle has to be a **closed system**:
-All possible skills must be **predictable** at the start of the battle.
-This points to a combat system where the environment is used for spellcasting. Players could carry those energy crystals to draw power from,
-but entering a fortress battle should somehow disable all damage or power increasing effects there might be in a game.
-The Combat moves learned by the Players or self-created moves, are considered predictable. It is part of the gameplay to know what moves exist,
-much like knowing what openings exist in RTS.