How do you get a Great Admiral out of a lake?
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Kyro
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I wished there was an actual way to carve out canals in Civilization though...that would make things really interesting. Surprise Backdoor naval assaults sound totally fun. Cant't bring the enemy to the sea? Bring the sea to the enemy~
TheEpicStorm
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Iron ore from Duluth, MN to Pittsburgh, finished steel from Pittsburgh to Detroit. Built the American 20th century. But, one could argue that the Great Lakes are more of the equivalent of a giant inland sea in civ, which would be big enough to have multiple cities on it, rather than a lake.
Kyro
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That's really creative I must say didn't even come close to thinking about that one...the only way you can attack yourself.
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It's a gameplay answer, Never build a harbour on a lake unless the city is also on the lake adjacent to the city.
You get an additional +2 gold and the ability to transfer admirals.
The only other answer I can think of is make sure your coastal cities have a larger population than your lake cities.
The Non gameplay reason Great admirals cannot travel over land is because sea battles killed captains often and Great admirals have wooden legs. They find land travel arduous compared to swimming with a wooden leg... they also do not get a tot of rum while travelling over land and a captain never leaves her ship.
The gameplay reason is the speed they travel on the sea combined with land travel would make them awesome goody hut finders.
You get an additional +2 gold and the ability to transfer admirals.
The only other answer I can think of is make sure your coastal cities have a larger population than your lake cities.
The Non gameplay reason Great admirals cannot travel over land is because sea battles killed captains often and Great admirals have wooden legs. They find land travel arduous compared to swimming with a wooden leg... they also do not get a tot of rum while travelling over land and a captain never leaves her ship.
The gameplay reason is the speed they travel on the sea combined with land travel would make them awesome goody hut finders.
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Vandlys
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Best. Answer.
It would be beyond easy for the developers to code land travel, but really slow. Kinda the reverse of when land units embark.. land units go from 4 movement to 2. Admirals could go from whatever they have on the water to 2 on land.
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It's the sea speed that's key but sure, if captain cook can, civ can.
Lily_Lancer
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Don't make your lake city the most populated, or at least not the most populated when you recruit the admiral.
Lake navys have its advantage, they're very good defensive units, cheap, and can provide reasonable bombard power and you can only attack them from ranged attacks. Shall be useful in PVP frontline cities, making that city a nightmare for attackers. (Assume both players are of similar level)
Lake navys have its advantage, they're very good defensive units, cheap, and can provide reasonable bombard power and you can only attack them from ranged attacks. Shall be useful in PVP frontline cities, making that city a nightmare for attackers. (Assume both players are of similar level)
nzcamel
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Easier said than done. Especially if your capital (for the majority of Civs who don't have coastal start bias) ends up with a lake harbour. I think they do need to address this, as it undermines great admirals far too often. All it would take, I think is being able to nominate which harbour a GA starts in. Yeah, bit of work for just one unit...but left as it is, is daft.
Lily_Lancer
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Most food come from harvesting resources, also you can micromanage your citizens for food or not, so it's easy to control population. At least for me.
nzcamel
Nahtanoj the Magnificent
I'm not going to manipulate my whole empire around getting a GA in the sea! I have more important things to do. But as GA -for the most part- belong in the sea, it's a bit of a mockery when they end up in charge of a lake navy consisting of one ship or less lol.
This is just another addition to the whole naval game ending up an after thought on most of the maps commonly used.
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Silverdawn
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They have an icon for relocating a Great Person from one city to another. Maybe they can extend that for Great Admirals to include harbor districts.
That would be the easiest solution I would think.
nzcamel
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Harbours give gold, they give GA points; their first building gives a house. If it's a big lake you may even want to build a ship there to protect your part of it! Of course if it's a big lake, the GA may even be alright in there...but for them to be everything they should be, really you should get the choice of what proximate body of water they end up in.
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That's a bit shelfish of you.
You do realise she has lived her whole life at sea, you have spent years recruiting her, then dump her in a tiny circle of water, abandoned on her ship.
You are a barbaric brine less barnacle.
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nzcamel
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It ain't me who wants her there! I want to set her free...just without turning my game upside down to achieve it.
Hans Castorp
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I used to know a guy from Austria who claimed to have done his national service in the Austrian navy, zipping around in speed-boats on alpine lakes. They once had a pep talk from an admiral who told them to always be prepared, for one day Austria would reclaim Slovenia with its coastline, and then the Austrian navy would rise once more in glory...
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