I tried to do a search on the topic on the web before asking this; but, it yielded little results; so, I came here with something that has puzzled me since this game came out. The subject is Forts.

The game has numerous forts all over the game. Many of them you take control of during your faction campaign; but, with varying results depending on which side you choose. We'll get into that in a minute. From what I understand, a player can clear all of the bandits out of those strategic forts at anytime. What do I mean by strategic, they are marked on every strategic map in the game with faction flags, depicting which side has claim to it.

I assumed that you could clear these forts out at anytime in the game and a short time later the controlling faction in that hold would automatically take control. I had witnessed this with a few forts; but, there are some that I have cleared out more than once while exploring and bandits re-spawn in it again later. One of the forts I am referring to is Fort Greenwall. The only time I have ever seen this fort maintained by a faction was after taking the hold for the Empire. As a matter of fact, the only time I have seen all of the forts occupied by a faction was with the Empire. If you win the war as a Stormcloak, many of the forts remain occupied by bandits and remain as such even after you clear them.

What I am asking here is; is this intentional or is this a fault with the game?

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That's kind of what I was expecting to hear. Sounds like this is a glitch with several of the Forts. Seems some of them are taken over really fast though. Like Fort Kastav. One time I cleared out that Fort on the way to Winterhold. I grabbed something at the Inn there, then headed back past the fort and saw Stormcloaks massing outside the fort, I was like. "Wow! That was fast, they must have been hidding in the bushes"! ha ha