Military embargo strategy.

[HalfLotus]

I know that your Civ resources are shared between cities that are connected the road network. A tactic could be to pillage roads such that the supply line to a city or cities is cut, and production & happiness suffers, thus making it difficult to defend.

Does anyone know if merely stationing a military unit on such a road would cut off supply?

[Pembleton]

Don't know, but standing on the square that contains the resources does.

[Shiva]

Re: Military embargo strategy.

Originally posted by HalfLotus
I know that your Civ resources are shared between cities that are connected the road network. A tactic could be to pillage roads such that the supply line to a city or cities is cut, and production & happiness suffers, thus making it difficult to defend.

Does anyone know if merely stationing a military unit on such a road would cut off supply?

It would be nice if it did.

[Ralf]

Originally posted by HalfLotus
Does anyone know if merely stationing a military unit on such a road would cut off supply?

If I remember it correctly, one of the Firaxians have actually mentioned something about 4-5 of hes cities turning into anarchy, because of an AI-unit that managed to pillage a key road-junction, that tied together several luxuries to these cities.

I dont know if its enough to simply stand on such a road, though. Most probably you must pillage it.

[Earthling7]

Wonderfool

[Andrew1999]

I'd say pillage it anyway. The occupying unit would move on to its next target in a turn or two, and then they'd have access to the resource net again. If you pillage it, then they have to get a worker out there to try and rebuild it in the middle of the war. I've killed hundreds of settlers/engineers/formers/whatever that were wandering around in the crossfire.

That gives me an idea for a new unit: Army Corps of Engineers. More expensive workers, but with a real defense and movement value so they can operate in war situations.

[Dauphin]

If positioning a unit disrupts the route, then expect roads to be built on every square. Ugly but the easiest get around.

[Inverse Icarus]

i know PILLAGING a road to a resource denies that resource to the city, but im not sure about military occupatation.

it would be nice if they coukd sieze the goods too CTPesque

[The Andy-Man]

why bother pillaging? just fortify a unit on the resource with a good defender, capture the city and you dont need to bother with rebuilding the road. of course, if you dont have the army/resources availible to take cities, you could do an emense amount of damage with pillaging big networks of roads...

[Madine]

Since trade routes are abstract I don't think that just stationing a unit on the road would work.

It would depend on how advanced the game's system of tracing trade routes is.

[CobraA1]

Originally posted by Andrew1999

That gives me an idea for a new unit: Army Corps of Engineers. More expensive workers, but with a real defense and movement value so they can operate in war situations.

Cool idea.

[Inverse Icarus]

who says i want to take those dirty cities, riddeled with babylonian scum?

I WILL DESTROY THE CITY AND ALL REMEMBRANCE OF IT.

[Akron]

Originally posted by Andrew1999
That gives me an idea for a new unit: Army Corps of Engineers. More expensive workers, but with a real defense and movement value so they can operate in war situations.

nah, no need for a new unit. Just stack a defensive unit on it.

[Inverse Icarus]

can you add workers to stacks of legions? i would assume so, but has it been confirmed?