(NAB) Resources continental restricted in war??

[Bob1475]

I don't know if this is a bug or not. I am playing a game on Warlord level(no laughing!) and have cities on what may be two continents. In any case I had harbors connecting the two groups of cities as one are had horses and the other area had iron. Built a bunch of pikemen and Knights and decided to go to war with Russia. Immediately upon war being declared one group of cities lost access to iron and the other to horses. Now, I understand that if they were connected via roads through Russia I would lose access but I have them also connected via harbors - don't I? Or if they are on the same land mass can they not be connected via harbors?

Any ideas?

 

[Catt]

You need Map Making and a coastal route to trade via harbors; or Astronomy and a sea route; or Navigation or Magnetism and an ocean route.

Since your trades were working before the war (meaning you had the required tech) what mostly likely happened was your coastal / sea route was cut off by the war. If Russia's culture (or another enemy's culture) interrupts your contiguous coastal / sea route, that route is effectively no longer available, just as roads passing through enemy territory are no longer available during wartime.

 

[Bob1475]

I have mapmaking. No culture interrupting the route. There is blue water in between the harbors though. Do you think it is because I don't have navigation?

 

[Catt]

If there is blue water (sea or ocean) and you don't have Astronomy or Navigation/Magnetism, then the harbors never were effective as trade routes. Either they are on the same continent (and harbors would't be necessary with a road connection) or they are on different continents and you need a pair of harbors connected by coastal tiles. Perhaps, if they truly are on two continents, you were using a Russian harbor as your trade route.

If you post a save, I am sure someone can answer the question accurately. The fact that you had access to both resources before the war, and lost them upon the declaration, must mean that a trade route was broken by the war -- it is only a matter of identifying it.

 

[Bob1475]

Thanks Catt. Of course, I eventually discovered it was indeed one continent. In any case I made a push to get a city which was connected via "white water" or coast and that closed the gap between the harbors. I guess I never had this situation before (hidden continent).