(6-NS) Land Units Can Blockade Empty Adjacent Lake Tiles

[usadefcon1]

Rational: Lake Tiles are often impossible to access with naval ships so in order to setup a blockade you must embark a land unit onto the lake tile. The embarked unit is a prime target for the city attack and typically takes heavy damage.

Proposal: Extend land units' ability to blockade empty adjacent tiles to include empty adjacent Lake tiles. This would make it so there would be no longer be a need to sacrifice embarked units to create the blockade.

This would apply to Lake tiles only and would not work for Coastal tiles.

 

[azum4roll]

Next you'll be complaining that it's impossible to blockade a city surrounded by 3+ adjacent lake tiles. You just gotta accept that it's an advantage for settling near lakes.

 

[usadefcon1]

Next you'll be complaining that it's impossible to blockade a city surrounded by 3+ adjacent lake tiles. You just gotta accept that it's an advantage for settling near lakes.

The AI would have the same advantage, actually it would probably help it take cities.

 

[Rosete]

Lake cities are already very weak as is, this will make them significantly harder to defend. The attacker can already park a siege unit behind a lake, shelling the city and be completely safe from defender melee units. Having the city blockade as well from just this is too much.

 

[Recursive]

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