Pillaging roads?

[Nohbody8]

For some reason, I can not stand how the AI builds roads EVERYWHERE. It wouldn't bother me so much if I never planned on controlling their territory for myself. Is there anyway to pillage roads once they are within my cultural territory? I'm fairly certain there's no way to do this in the game. Perhaps there's some way to alter the game somehow to allow this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[alva]

Not that I know of.

Gonna have to learn to live with it.

[Nikolai]

What's wrong with some spare roads?

[Kuciwalker]

Can't you bomb them with airplanes?

[Jaybe]

No Alex, you cannot bomb roads anywhere, even in enemy territory.
Haven't tried pillaging MY roads (with a ground unit) recently.

[Kuciwalker]

Do I know you?

edit: sorry, sounds a little harsh when I read it out loud

[LordShiva]

Like Jeremy, I too have never tried pillaging on my own territory. It's silly. If I'm going to keep a captured city, I might as well keep its improvements.

[Dis]

I think you can pillage roads after you pillage the other improvements first. But that isn't very useful. . Because then you have to rebuild the farms and stuff. And you wouldn't want to pillage cottages/villages.

[Azuarc]

Stupid question, but...when would you ever truly want to pillage a road except to cut off an enemy city from reinforcements?

[Tattila the Hun]

And how do you pillage a *road*? Plant some trees over it? Maybe grass?

[Yosho]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
And how do you pillage a *road*? Plant some trees over it? Maybe grass?

(shrug) Rip it up, destroy bridges, cut down trees and block it off with logs and rocks, lay caltrops, dig pits. It was fairly common to do stuff like that to delay an advancing enemy army, and suffice to say that doing that would leave the road pretty much useless until a worker got back out there to fix it up.

[Nohbody8]

Originally posted by Azuarc
Stupid question, but...when would you ever truly want to pillage a road except to cut off an enemy city from reinforcements?

I suppose it's my fault for not being specific. I don't have a problem with roads within a city's borders. It's the roads the AI builds between cities that get on my nerves. Combine this excessive road network with how the AI routinely overlaps the borders of cities and it's really hard for me to tell, at a glance, which tiles my newly acquired cities can work from the ones that simply have a road on them. It would be immensely easier for me to be able to pillage all of the unneccessary roads outside of my cities borders so everything with a road on it can be worked by a city.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Azuarc
Stupid question, but...when would you ever truly want to pillage a road except to cut off an enemy city from reinforcements?

hehe, I was going to say to sever resources such as iron, but the mine is always pillaged first. But you could do it to force them to spend more time recovering their nation when the war is done. I never do it unless I don't intend on taking their cities for myself.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Nohbody8


I suppose it's my fault for not being specific. I don't have a problem with roads within a city's borders. It's the roads the AI builds between cities that get on my nerves. Combine this excessive road network with how the AI routinely overlaps the borders of cities and it's really hard for me to tell, at a glance, which tiles my newly acquired cities can work from the ones that simply have a road on them. It would be immensely easier for me to be able to pillage all of the unneccessary roads outside of my cities borders so everything with a road on it can be worked by a city.

I hate all the roads myself. Even the barbarians build roads like crazy.

The whole point of these "improvements" was so we wouldn't have road spam on the map. That's why roads don't give any bonus' anymore. I don't build that many myself. I could post a screenshot. But I usually only build roads on forests (to get the lumbermill bonus later), mines, and to connect those so it looks pleasing to the eye. And to internconnect my cities in a logical fashion for rapid troop movement.

[rah]

in some parts of the midgame i'll just build the roads if they have nothing better to do. It's nice to have a few alternate routes if the ai is pillaging. I'd hate to have one single road hex pillaged and lose access to a lot of resources.

Besides when it's railroad time, and I automate all my workers, they're going to railroad the whole damn thing anyway.