I don't know how common this is, I have never seen it before. I was going for a diplo win, half the world was Jewish like me and half the world was Buddhist, Except Gandhi. He was the red headed stepchild that everybody beat up on cause he was Hindu.
I looked at Gandhi's land and saw a unique feature, there was a dotted line of small lakes that went right through. If only I could build forts there I could sail right through!
So, like America moving in to Panama, building the canal they wanted, and then giving it back to panama, I beat the crap out of Gandhi until he vassaled to me. Then I could build forts in his land and create my canal I also have all his cities back. Oh, and I learned that I had to camp like 4 workers on 2 of the tiles because Gandhi kept putting farms there and I had to keep putting my forts back.
I already had a canal of my own (incidentally, does anybody know of a mod that would have let me build naval units in Canterbury? The game did not recognize it as a port town)
but it didn't do any good because Boudica build her town in the wrong spot
She should have moved it East one tile. Clearly I had to persuade Boudica to let me build a fort sort of down and right of her city. But we were friendly and declaring war on her would upset everybody that otherwise would have given me the diplo win. Oh well, I NEED my canal, WAR!>Vassal>give back all the cities>camp 4 workers on that tile so I can keep building forts as needed.
And the grand North to south canal was finished somewhere around the year 1950
If anybody knows if it's possible to run a canal through this spot, let me know
I don't think there is because there are two tiles between two cities (circled)
I looked at Gandhi's land and saw a unique feature, there was a dotted line of small lakes that went right through. If only I could build forts there I could sail right through!
Spoiler :
So, like America moving in to Panama, building the canal they wanted, and then giving it back to panama, I beat the crap out of Gandhi until he vassaled to me. Then I could build forts in his land and create my canal I also have all his cities back. Oh, and I learned that I had to camp like 4 workers on 2 of the tiles because Gandhi kept putting farms there and I had to keep putting my forts back.
I already had a canal of my own (incidentally, does anybody know of a mod that would have let me build naval units in Canterbury? The game did not recognize it as a port town)
Spoiler :
but it didn't do any good because Boudica build her town in the wrong spot
Spoiler :
She should have moved it East one tile. Clearly I had to persuade Boudica to let me build a fort sort of down and right of her city. But we were friendly and declaring war on her would upset everybody that otherwise would have given me the diplo win. Oh well, I NEED my canal, WAR!>Vassal>give back all the cities>camp 4 workers on that tile so I can keep building forts as needed.
And the grand North to south canal was finished somewhere around the year 1950
Spoiler :
If anybody knows if it's possible to run a canal through this spot, let me know
Spoiler :