Poll: make marsh tiles removable?

[dissatisfieduser]

IIRC marsh tiles can be removed in vanilla. As it stands, I can understand marshes existing as they are in the mod to block civilian units like settlers and workers from moving in certain ways. However, I feel like in the late game, being able to clear marshes could open up badly needed tiles for economic growth. I propose that marshes become traversable and clearable with the Biology tech.

 

[PiR]

Good idea! Maybe sooner for the Dutch?
Biology is so late I don't personnally play that far into the modern eras.

 

[Pawlak]

Great idea, but maybe not removed marsh could provide some other bonus like science + tourism or culture with even higher tech. I would still argue for non traversable marshes or damaging any standing unit if such is possible to be modded.

 

[PiR]

Science would be consistent as jungles can get science.
Culture however, except gameplay, what's the rationale behind it?

 

[dissatisfieduser]

IIRC, Dutch in vanilla build polders on marshes? Maybe include the travers-ability for Dutch workers in their civ unique bonus? I still think Biology should be the unlocking tech given its an industrial era tech and marshes were historically barriers up till that period (still are in some ways). I would also argue that being able to replace a grasslands marsh with a grasslands farm means going from a no-food tile to a 3-4 food tile makes it valuable enough and becomes an extra tile units can walk into, which opens new tactical possibilities in the late game.