Americas answer to Seeland!
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Re: Americas answer to Seeland!
Its probably closer to 10,and they are highways, and more than a few of them run up to and right by military bases on the border.
Highway 31 would be another example.
Highway 31 would be another example.
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I was thinking about mountain travel in the game the other day. And really thought it was way to easy to get armor threw the mountains. And thought mountain terrain movement should get looked into for a possible adjustment. If you have ever flown across some real mountains. Even the rocky mountains in the US, The only place you are going to get across in these places is via a road. If there is no road, you better have some mountain climbing equipment handy, and I dont think that is somthing more then a foot infantry is capable of.
The best solution I would see here is add a new terrain type. Call it an extreme mountain hex, Make it so only infantry can move threw it unless there is a road.
The best solution I would see here is add a new terrain type. Call it an extreme mountain hex, Make it so only infantry can move threw it unless there is a road.
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You'd need one for jungle also, and likely desert as well.
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And swamps.
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Thats a good point. Infact reguarding swamps, Its been awhile since I have read it. But I remember some area's of Veitnam where off limits to armor as the terriain was impasable.
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There are also large swamps in Siberia, Belarus, northern Norway and Finland
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Silk Road is a trading route used for a long time.
Heres another road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road
Heres another road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yungas_Road
Try driving a 12ft wide tank across that.Because of the extreme dropoffs of at least 600 metres (2,000 ft), single-lane width – most of the road no wider than 3.2 metres (10 ft) and lack of guard rails, the road is extremely dangerous. Further still, rain, fog and dust can make visibility precarious. In many places the road surface is muddy, and can loosen rocks from the road.[6]
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Except it wasnt for a long time also, as china closed it down due the border spat with india.It was closed for over 4 decades til circa 2006-7.Nathu La pass is still considered a military zone today, and the border is dotted with military outposts.Not only do convoys run the route regularly,but as far back as 1962 tanks fought up there.
The history of mechanized warfare was re-written by the regiment (indian 1rst) in 1962, when it drove its tanks to the dizzying heights of 14,000 feet up the Nathu La road in Sikkim – a feat never performed or attempted before anywhere in the world.
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Except it wasnt for a long time
Seems like the 4th century was a long time ago.From the 4th century onward, Chinese pilgrims also started to travel on the Silk Road to India, the origin of Buddhism, by themselves in order to get improved access to the original scriptures, with Fa-hsien's pilgrimage to India (395–414), and later Xuan Zang (629–644). The legendary accounts of the holy priest Xuan Zang were described in a famous novel called Journey to the West, which envisaged trials of the journey with demons but with the help of various disciples.
The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism essentially ended around the 7th century with the rise of Islam in Central Asia.
Wonder why those tank battles happened along the road corridors, hmmm, maybe because its was only way to get them thru the mountains. If the hexes were impassable along most of those mountian hexes there and the other high mountains ranges, you might actually see the strategic value of controlling those roads.
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Exactly.Which is what said hexes would bring to the game.But if applied in blanket form across entire ranges or deserts,or jungles,or swamps, they lose a lot of what they would bring.Which is why if we manage to talk bg into including these,they need to be applied with some knowledge and sense.Hundane wrote: If the hexes were impassable along most of those mountian hexes there and the other high mountains ranges, you might actually see the strategic value of controlling those roads.
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