Why do you need coal for a railway when...

[Xink]

Hello

Why is it when you have researched refining and combustion there is still a requirement for coal before you can build railways..?

I would have thought like modern naval units make ironclads obsolete and they in turn are not a pre-requirement for advances in naval units then the same would apply for building a railway.

It is not as though once the ability to build advanced naval units and even have built an airport or two that you would still consider building steam trains.

I hope, it wouldn't be the first time, that I'm not missing the obvious here.

Lucky me plays a huge map again to find only two blobs of rubber on the entire map (both of them in the middle of a huge Celt group of cities (other side of the map) and no coal near me either. Still I do have three lots of ivory


Morgan

 

[Masquerouge]

Well I don't know maybe you need the coals not for the trains but for the rails themselves.. Don't you need coal to refine steel ? Not sure on that though...

 

[Xink]

Masquerouge thanks for your answer. But if that applies about needing coal for the steel process why can I now produce it to make battleships, aircraft etc...?

I can understand that I need rubber to make bouncy tanks, aircraft musn't need to bounce as much as I can make them, but still find it hard to understand that coal is still needed for rail - still maybe the answer is to just accept it rather than try and understand it

Morgan

 

[The Last Conformist]

Indeed; you just have to accept it. It's still not as bizarre as Battleships not requring Iron.

 

[sealman]

Maybe you never discoverd or invent other types of train engines but yes, the best anser is to just accept it.

 

[Herse]

Originally posted by The Last Conformist
Indeed; you just have to accept it. It's still not as bizarre as Battleships not requring Iron.

. . . or being able to build aircraft carriers before aircraft (depending on your tech research order).

Herse

 

[Yago]

You can rifleman without needing any resource, yet at the same time, you still need to have gunpowder to build cavalary.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Well the salpeter is a very crude form of gun powder and with later units they use a more advanced form they choose not to display similar to how units made from steel don't require iron even through it is needed to become steel.