Damage from "unfriendly" land-types?

[Temudschin Dschingis Khan]

I think that units which go through deserts, arctic-regions or mountains should get some damage.
Example: As Hannibal tried to get over the alps with his war-elephants he lost nearly all!
And try to go with a huge army through the Sahara. Isnt´s much fun at all...

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[Shadowstrike]

We had a thread on this a while ago. Let's see if we could find it. However, if units get damaged on any terrain, it wouldn't be very fun to play.

[Adm.Naismith]

May I suggest you take a look at my More use of damage point july post (and linked response)?

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[DarkCloud]

Hmmm. this thread comes up a lot. I'll try to bump an older thread which concerns this.

[Patriqvium]

I had the same idea with polar regions in the "Automatic Polar Caps" thread. It should make use of terrain more fun, I think...

[rremus]

How about 'Mined field' terrain improvement? It will sure help protect those remote areas from unwanted visitors An of course, a Demining Engineer unit

P.S. Maybe this post is just the influence of a recent visit to Croatia

[UltraSonix]

Doh! The idea's so obvious and so simple! The idea should be implemented through simple flags in the rules.txt. Units classified an ancient/middle ages would get lots of damage, while more modern units (with air con/heating) will get less damage. Civs with (advanced?) flight could get the damage reducef to zero because they'll airlift in supplies like they do with refugees in real life.

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No, in Australia we don't live with kangaroos and koalas in our backyards...

[Theben]

quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud on 09-07-2000 10:22 PM Hmmm. this thread comes up a lot. I'll try to bump an older thread which concerns this.

Could this be what you're looking for?

quote: *Extreme climates damage units. I went over this more throughly in another thread, but the gist is this; Some units (chariots, tanks, etc.) may not enter (swamp, mountain w/o roads/passes). Other units take damage as they move through (bogged down, disease, exposure,etc.) Some special units would be immune in specific terrain (alpine in mountains, tundra, marines in jungle/swamp). The special units would also be immune to movement penalties, but would not get a road multiplier. Some immune to all climates (partisan, explorer). Bases, cities protect against extreme climates.

[This message has been edited by Theben (edited September 08, 2000).]

[DarkCloud]

Not quite however it is close enough.