Directed Forest Chopping

[bongo]

It takes forever to get things done, it moves too slow, it is too weak and it need engineering.

I was thinking of a low-cost unit which built forests in one turn and treated all terrain as roads

Like a cruisemissile with super fast growing seeds

[Aeson]

Originally posted by alexman
Cities in the 2-straight-tiles cases (66, 22, 44, and 88) do not have the forest in their radius, so they cannot receive the shields.

In C3C this is true. You get the straight away tile's shields in at least some of the Civ/PtW versions.

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Don't we have a tree planting unit called a worker?

The one you Americans call Johnny Appleseed?

[vmxa1]

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by alexman
When you chop a forest, the city receiving the shields is determined in this order of priority (keypad directions to city location from forest):
9-6-3-2-1-4-7-8-98-99-96-36-33-32-12-11-14-74-77-78

Of course, cities building a Wonder or belonging to a different civilization are not considered. And contrary to popular belief, worked tiles make no difference to where the shields end up.

/me squints

What do you REALLY do, alexman? Are you, in fact, Sid?

[Arrian]

So it's clockwise starting in the NE corner and finishing up in the NW corner. Good to know.

The wonder trick works well, but isn't always an option.

Thanks to Alexman & Aeson for the info.

-Arrian