Civ 5 - roads

[Schuesseled]

the new strategic map pics "say" roads will be only between cities...

This implies that it will be only for sg. that is happening between the cities - trade.

I wonder if roads will be of any use for units...

no its jsut those roads are l;ikely to be relatively free (having a cost but making up for it with a trade route) whereas other roads are gonna cost you, you you won't be building unless it was 100% necessary.

 

[V. Soma]

Yeah, now I see on the strategic map pics that not all roads lead exactly from city to city,
so my theory went wrong...

 

[timtofly]

I hope they have it so there is a bridge for the roads that go over rivers... otherwise the civ people will have to do some Dukes of Hazzard jumping to get across.

If roads provide no mobility benefit for units traveling on roads, then that would be pushing the absolute limits of gameplay > realism to the extent of stupidity.

THE SOLE MEANING of a road is to provide better mobility. Before roads, goods were still brought from town to town by other methods (wagon, etc). Roads just make it faster and easier for military and domestic alike. I hope roads purpose doesn't solely connect luxuries.

In Civ II, when moving "on" the railroad, your unit icon did turn into a Train icon, maybe someone could mod the "dukes" in.