[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Suggestion: different types of coast

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2003 at 09:37:50PM +0000, James wrote:
> What about having different types of coast:
>       -Cliff coast: Prevents any units from coming ashore from that 
> direction.  
> Cities on cliffs cannot have ships enter them, or build ships unless they 
> have a harbour built.
>       -Beaches: Allows ships to offload troops.  Cities built next to beaches 
> can 
> have ships enter them without harbours.
> 
> This would add a whole new dimention to invading someone's island.  Some 
> islands could be extremely well defended because they are surrounded by 
> cliffs, although this would make costal cities difficult to be used as ports 
> because they wouldn't be able to build ships until they built a harbour.
> 
> It would also be interesting because islands could have hidden, or very well 
> defended bays that would give building a city there a very good strategic 
> advantage.

I like it. It may slow down the expansion of a player with many
ironclads. So a city which has only cliffs could have access to a
whale but is quite defended because you can't get the city with the
usual attack-with-ironclads-and-capture-with-a-horsemen. The same
could be achieved by providing a special which has the same value as a
whale for non-ocean tiles.

        Raimar

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