Froonp
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Joined: 10/21/2003 From: Marseilles, France Status: offline
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Brazil: The Amazon River Road is an anachronism. When I was on the Amazon in 1975, Manaus could still only be reached by river. It is a free port (truly), so the Amazon should be shown as navigable up to that point. In 1975 the only road out of the Amazon southwards began at Santarem, roughly where Amazon of Amazon River Road is printed ... and it looked pretty new. Northwards, the road network began at Boa Vista near the source of the Branco and ran to the border with Venezuela and onwards. Indeed, the Amazon River, in MWiF, is navigable up to Manaus, simply because technically it is not a river. It is the sea, and the hexes around it are considered coastal. This said, Manaus itself is not considered a port. If it was, Carriers such as the Enterprise, or Battleships such as the Yamato would be able to dock here, and I don't think that it could really be possible. About roads, there are no roads in MWiF, with a couple of exceptions. The Burma Road, the Arctic Road (Finland up to Petsamo), and 2 "river roads" that are indeed ways for the game to simulate the shipping of resources and supply along the said river. The road per see may not exist, but in the game it is a way to allow supply & RP transport to be done as if it were done by the river. There is one in Belgian Congo along the Kasai River, on which you can ship the Belgian Congo resource to Boma, from where it ships through convoys to the rest of the world. This simulate the transport on the river.
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