That sounds nice on paper, but falls down very quickly once you put it into the game. Just look at the wars that have happened around the lake on Atamara. Both sides of the bridges have townslands on them and max. level 2 walls. Every single war I have seen fought over there during my 5+ years of playing have devolved into staring matches across the bridge and an occasional assault or two. Add in a stronghold on either side with level 5 walls and it just turns into a war that isn't any fun at all.
+1
Don't get me wrong, at first I am like "yeah!" The idea sounds cool, but realistically if strongholds were placed at true geographic choke-points, we would see even more massive stalemates at those choke-points than we already have.
Imagine if there was a stronghold on either side of Cantril on Atamara right now.
