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I'm working on some custom campaigns, and I'm curious about how certain terrain features work in the game: specifically, roads and rivers.
1) Roads - there doesn't seem to be any way that I can find to implement road movement, that is, units seem to move according to the terrain in the road hex (forest, for example), rather than get any benefit from road movement, which seems to negate the point of roads. I'm assuming they must have a supply/reinforcement function in the global/continental scenarios? But I'm making mods for individual battles, using more focused maps (regional, not global). So in this case are the roads purely decorative, or is there some way to use a "road movement"? Or is it possible to restrict "forced march" movement to road hexes only, which is another option that would work for my designs? With that in mind, could it also be possible to implement different movement rates on "roads" versus "trails"?
2) Rivers - I'd like to make certain rivers impassable, with bridges (roads over rivers) being the only way for units to cross. I know how to adjust the terrain movement cost, but it seems that rivers occupy entire hexes, not hex sides, so a river hex marked as "impassable" cannot be crossed, even at a bridge. The only solution I could come up with is to make the "Major River" impassable, and use a "River" hex at the point in the river where I want the crossing? Or is there a better way to implement this? It should also be the case that only artillery (range of 2 or better) can attack across a Major (impassable) River hex, except at a bridge. Although the editor allows us to put rivers in the same hexes as resources (towns), to implement the features the way I want, would it be better to design the map so that impassable Major Rivers are the only feature in a given hex? The net effect would be to make the river "appear" to occupy the entire hex, even though the graphic is "pinned" to one or more hex sides. I'm considering using the red/blue diagonal striped hexes from the "Symbol" hex collection to make it a bit more obvious that the rivers are large, and occupy more than just a side or two. It won't look the best but it might have the effect I'm looking for.
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although I'm not quite sure why some units will begin their turn with less than their full amount of points? Related to terrain, morale, supply or something else? 2) My brainstorm for using regular Rivers at bridge locations, while making the rest of the river hexes Major River and declaring all major rivers "impassible" did the trick. I'm using the shaded striped symbols while play testing to help me visualize the crossing points, but in the 1st "release" I might remove these. They are a nice tool for map design when you need to "highlight" certain hexes.
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