I Hate Mountains

[bioelectricclam]

And ice too- at least the way that they are implemented in Civ IV. Who ever heard of ice/mountains being completely impassable? People climb mountains all the time...and they have ships to break ice up nowadays. Plus the idea of having a tile that I can never work ever sort of annoys me.

Basically what I wish they had where the mountains that earlier Civ games had; make them impassable to mounted units only...unless someone builds a road over it. I'd also like this because then we could have realistic mountain ranges....not goofy looking 1 square wide walls. Anyways end rant.

 

[Dwarkyzidez]

Do you see how steep those mountains are?

 

[puglover]

Impassable terrain adds an extra element of strategy, and provides more historical basis as well.

 

[lost_civantares]

Since when can several thousend people plus machinary cross over the alps on foot?

I agree with puglover, they add extra strategy.

 

[wkndwrrr]

There are passable mountains; In the Earth: 1000 AD scenario, there is what appears to be an impassible wall of mountains seperating the Yucatan Peninsula from the rest of Mexico. I was astonished when I witnessed a Barb. warrior crossing over them to pillage some tiles. There are other places like this, but they are mostly in the random non-earth maps; I saw one in a very long mountain range seperating me from another civ that used it to send troops into my land

 

[dh_epic]

You won't find too many instances of people sending entire armies over the mountain. You'll only see the occasional explorer hitting a mountain -- which is how Civ has it now.

Most mountain ranges have slightly lower parts, like hills, where people can make their crossings.

To me, it wouldn't be such a bad thing if a later game tech (e.g.: chemistry, metallurgy) allowed workers to enter a mountain and build a road (tunnel).

 

[Lord GS-41]

I don't know if this is new with the patch, but submarines have (at least in description) the ability to traverse impassible terrain - ice.

I can't say anything about those mountains though.