We ARE going to have mountain cities, aren't we?

[moopoo]

cities on mountains would be a great unique ability for the Inca

 

[Wirapuru]

making the Ai understand it, without dumbing the whole thing down, is another question.

because they are really good for bringing in more tactic as natural barriers.

I have to agree. Unless they totally remade A.I. thinking from scratch and made it outstanding as it looks from previews, seeing from past games I don't think leaders would think out-of-the-box like that.

 

[Wosret84]

since ranged units are now included, i want to use world builder to put seige units on mountains, then ranged bombard the #^%$ out of enemies. since it's on a mountain (impassable), it can't be attacked by melee units, only ranged. it could destroy the ranged attackers before they got to it. if being on a hill increases range (which it does), then being on a mountain should increase the range even more.

Helicopter gunships can pass over mountain tiles. So they aren't a total blocking feature at least in modern warfare. Artillery can obviously also fire over mountains.

 

[Civ3rockz!!]

Quito: on flat land surrounded by hills, not in mountains.
Bergen: on a lake surrounded by hills, not mountains.
Trondheim; built on flat/rollnig land, not steep mountains.
http://trendsetter-graz.fgm.at/pics/stadtbild_graz.jpg : built on flat land by a river, not mountains.
Tblisi built on flat land by a river, surrounded by hills, not mountains.
http://www.old-picture.com/europe/pictures/Constantine-General.jpg Hills, not mountains.
http://www.photoglobe.info/bl_guatem...emala_2144.jpg Built on flat/rolling land.
Bogota: built on flat land surrounded by hills.

You can already build cities on Hill tiles in Civ - and this gives a large natural defensive bonus.

Hills are not mountains. Civ mountains are like alps and himalayas; very steep, mostly above the tree line, snow-capped, impassible.

You do not see any cities high up in the alps, or himalayas, or Rockies. Incas are pretty much it for building a few sizeable cities on incredibly steep terrain. There are some people living in very steep terrain in places like Nepal and Bhutan and Afghanistan, but not cities.

Yes but you've got to remember that civ isnt just about modern age but also in ancient age. a.k.a incan time