Fortifications are military constructions and buildings designed for defense in warfare. Humans have constructed defensive works for many thousands of years, in a variety of increasingly complex designs. The term is derived from the Latin fortis ("strong") and facere ("to make").

Many military installations are known as forts, although they are not always fortified. Larger forts may class as fortresses, smaller ones formerly often bore the name of fortalices. The word fortification can also refer to the practice of improving an area's defense with defensive works. City walls are fortifications but not necessarily called fortresses.

The art of laying out a military camp or constructing a fortification traditionally classes as castrametation, since the time of the Roman legions. The art/science of laying siege to a fortification and of destroying it has the popular name of siegecraft and the formal name of poliorcetics. In some texts this latter term also applies to the art of building a fortification.

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worldisphat (Dale) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:56:51 -0000
@iamtheplague you need to read crying of lot 49 and fortress of solitude for beatles references.
2009-12-06 21:56 Xfire: Team Fortress 2
MrEtrOX (João Pereira) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:56:28 -0000
2009-12-06 21:56 Xfire: Team Fortress 2
Team Fortress 2 is awesome. But I seriously suck at it...
LTS55 (BMFNL) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:54:06 -0000
Team Fortress 2 is awesome. But I seriously suck at it...
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_DungeonMaster_ (_DungeonMaster_) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:47:36 -0000
@stutterjoey I was playing Team Fortress with my "clan" vs this other "clan".
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