Re: Civ 4 - Beyond The Sword

In alt.games.civ3 on Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Öjevind Lång wrote :
>>
>>> Caravels, for example, can travel
>>>freely in anyone's borders.
>>
>> Feature or bug, I wonder?
>
>Feature, I think. At the time of caravels, no one really had control of
>their "territorial waters"; in fact, I don't think the concept existed.
The
>fact that galleys and triremes can't enter the water of another civ
without
>a right of passage can be explained by the fact that they had to hug the
>coast, that is to say, stay near land if possible. That means that if
they
>weren't welcome then they could easily be seen as encroaching whereas a
>caravel could just be a sail against the horizon.

But if, for instance, a Battle****p or Carrier isn't welcome, unless the 
opponent has invented aircraft or subs, there's sod-all he could do 
about it...
-- 
Paul 'Charts Fan' Hyett