Galleys and the Lighthouse

[barFly]

Hi,
I am new to Civ3 and Have a question. I am play Civ3TW and my civ has bulit the greatlight house wonder... Now the greatlight house is suppose to allow my galley to travel over the sea but they just keep sinking... Is this a bug or do I not understand the effects of the wonder?

Thanks,
barFly

 

[Minmaster]

sea and ocean tiles are different. u probably tried to go over an ocean tile.

 

[cracker]

Minmaster is correct, the difference between sea and ocean tiles probably accounts for your sinking events.

You can use your right button from your mouse to click on sea or ocean tiles to display the terrain info and make sure what they are. The pathfinder (pointing to move circle) algoritm also helps you with this process because it will display a number in the forward circle when you can legitimiately move into the forward square.

Remember also that the great lighthouse adds one movement point to the base movement range of all your naval units.

Another big issue to not forget is that the great lighthouse will give you the power to cross sea square and the extra movement range to even cross some ocean gaps that are under 4 tiles wide but you will not have the ability to pass resources across teh gaps until you discover Astronomy or perhaps even Magnetism (or Navigation).

Good luck,

 

[Allemand]

The Great Lighthouse is great, indeed. It allows you to end your turn on a sea square and avoid attack from barbarian or other AI galleys, because they won't attack that square.