Impassable Waters for "wheeled" units

[Gary Childress]

FYI:

I'm not sure if this has been tried before, I'm sure it has, but it appears that you can make coast or sea or whatever "Impassable by wheeled units" and then give a certain type of ship the "wheeled" flag and it will become impossible to have that particular sea unit travel through that type of water. The other thing is I'm not sure why anyone would want to make a particular sea unit unable to move into a type of water, almost the same thing can be accomplished by using the "sinks in sea" or "sinks in ocean" flag. Anyway I thought that was interesting.

 

[Supa]

Yes, I used to do that for early, mat-less iron clads in my personal mod.
It also could be used in a Fantasy mod where there would be High-Sea monsters and Coast monsters!

 

[Ares de Borg]

Have been using this for years. It's a good concept.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I've been using it as well. Useful in an Age of Discovery scenario, for example.

 

[WildWeazel]

You're late to the party, Gary
But yes, it can be a useful feature. On a related note, you can also vary the movement cost of water terrain to make ships slower in coastal waters for example.

 

[Ozymandias]

FYI:

I'm not sure if this has been tried before, I'm sure it has, but it appears that you can make coast or sea or whatever "Impassable by wheeled units" and then give a certain type of ship the "wheeled" flag and it will become impossible to have that particular sea unit travel through that type of water. The other thing is I'm not sure why anyone would want to make a particular sea unit unable to move into a type of water, almost the same thing can be accomplished by using the "sinks in sea" or "sinks in ocean" flag. Anyway I thought that was interesting.

With "Sinks In ..." a unit can always make a dash across, say, a single tile. This method eliminates the option entirely.

Best,

z

 

[Gary Childress]

With "Sinks In ..." a unit can always make a dash across, say, a single tile. This method eliminates the option entirely.

Best,

z

True, and then there are the desperate attempts to discover new territory by sending 30 galleys into the deep ocean hoping that at least one will make it to a new land.

@ wildweazel: Not the first party I've ever been fashionably late for!

 

[Diviner]

Its quite neat feature. I have been using it for a long time. My curraghs, galleys, catapult ships and sails cannot enter even into sea squares

Also you can tweak with movement costs of the three types of water squares. For example set coast to cost 3MP, set "ignore movement cost" for galleys etc., but not for age of sail and later ships and voila now you have to use ocean to travel fast from the late middle ages.... lots of possibilities