Crossing mountains

[Homusubi]

I've seen a number of promotions that seem to give units the ability to cross mountains, but I need help distinguishing them from each other. I'm looking for one that allows mountain crossings, but not water. Preferably not ice either, but I'd rather settle for it than use Lua.

Any advice on this?

 

[Hambil]

I've seen a number of promotions that seem to give units the ability to cross mountains, but I need help distinguishing them from each other. I'm looking for one that allows mountain crossings, but not water. Preferably not ice either, but I'd rather settle for it than use Lua.

Any advice on this?

It's not described in detail, but Whoward has one called terrain crossing.

 

[whoward69]

Firaxis fundamentally broke this in patch 674 (G&K) with the changes to helicopters, traits and damage from mountains. (It's why my original TBM unit mod was retired and has taken the best part of a year to re-surface)

A unit may enter a mountain tile if

• the owning player has a trait with <CrossesMountainsAfterGreatGeneral>true</CrossesMountainsAfterGreatGeneral> and has created a Great General OR
• the unit has any promotion with <HoveringUnit>true</HoveringUnit> OR
• the unit has any promotion with <CanMoveAllTerrain>true</CanMoveAllTerrain>

Note: They used to be able to enter with the promotion feature <CanMoveImpassable>true</CanMoveImpassable> but that only now checks for terrain/features and as mountains have a base terrain of their surroundings (desert, plains, etc) it no longer works.

The problem with <HoveringUnit> is just that, your units will hover (complete with ground wash) above the mountain. The problem with <CanMoveAllTerrain> is that units will treat land/water as the same - and move freely anywhere on the map (it's what the Steam Punk Airships get)

The final problem is that any unit over a mountain will take 50 points of damage (which is hard coded) at the end of their turn

Edit: The promotion linked by Hambril solves all of those issues, but it requires my modded DLL - see post #22 in this thread - http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=492061&page=2

 

[Homusubi]

Does that promotion also allow the units to cross ice, or just mountains?

 

[whoward69]

Does that promotion ...

Which one of the three mentioned? Hover, All Terrain, or Move Impassable.

Without checking (as my mind is full of my own mods around the subject and not the base functionality), off the top of my head - No, yes, yes

But in the latter case, the unit will sink like a sub

 

[Homusubi]

I meant your modded promotion that Hambil alerted me to.

 

[whoward69]

There's a separate CrossesIce promotion, see post #2 in that thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=492061)