Road/River Questions

[Agent_TBC]

I know rivers are one way to link cities, along with roads and coastline. And I know that rivers in your territory give a movement bonus (and neutral rivers give a movement bonus with one of the laws that I always take). My question is whether there is any utility at all in building a road alongside a river where you are getting a movement bonus, or is it a waste of stone and orders because the river is already giving you the same bonus as the road.

Basically should roads only be built where there is no river around, or is there an advantage to both along the same path?

 

[Dale]

Colonies is the law you're thinking about which gives movement bonus over neutral rivers. If you go with Colonies law, then no a road along a river is the same movement speed as the river itself. But if you don't have/use Colonies then a road along a river does speed up movement.

Probably the only benefit would be that roads cannot be blockaded during war. Rivers can be blockaded by an enemy ship anchored at the outflow of the river. This cuts the river connection, but the river still allows the movement bonus under Colonies law.

 

[nolegskitten]

I know rivers are one way to link cities, along with roads and coastline. And I know that rivers in your territory give a movement bonus (and neutral rivers give a movement bonus with one of the laws that I always take). My question is whether there is any utility at all in building a road alongside a river where you are getting a movement bonus, or is it a waste of stone and orders because the river is already giving you the same bonus as the road.

Basically should roads only be built where there is no river around, or is there an advantage to both along the same path?

no advantage to making a road alongside a river, unless it's outside of your territory and you don't have colonies yet, but they're costly enough to build that I'd rather get colonies sooner. The only other case is joining a road from/to a land city to the river rather than along it, to connect the city to the trade network