Naval blockade of landbridges...

[Dutchhoplite]

Is this possible??

Some Eleutheroi ships prevented me building a fort near a ford so i was wondering if it's possible to prevent movement acros landbridges with naval units only.

[anubis88]

No.

[glouch]

yes you can. try moving a shit on the landbridge and watch the enemy's move area get cut off.

[mountaingoat]

try moving a shit on the landbridge and watch the enemy's move

i'm sure they would move away quickly

[Duguntz]

yes you can. try moving a shit on the landbridge and watch the enemy's move area get cut off.

Can work, but it's better to be a really big one!!!

[anubis88]

Yeah you may be right... Never tried blocking my enemies whit shit.... Thanks for the advice

[Alsatia]

.....

Better be smelly too....

(Please refrain from swearing)

[Dutchhoplite]

This is turning into a "2 Makedonians 1 cup" topic

[Zett]

AFAIK you can block landbridges with ships. It happened in the early turns of several KH Camapigns, the Maks moved their fleet to the landbridge between Athenai and Chalkis, so that I couldn't move my troops to Chalkis. Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

[anubis88]

AFAIK you can block landbridges with ships. It happened in the early turns of several KH Camapigns, the Maks moved their fleet to the landbridge between Athenai and Chalkis, so that I couldn't move my troops to Chalkis. Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

I never experienced this, and i tried a lot of times.

P.S. Zett, shouldn't your sig be Ceterum censeo Romae esse delendam?

[Zett]

I never experienced this, and i tried a lot of times.

P.S. Zett, shouldn't your sig be Ceterum censeo Romae esse delendam?

No, it is an accusative object. Same KNG as delendam.

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a-declension

nominative: Roma
genitive: Romae
dative: Romae
accusative: Romam
ablative: Roma

k-declension

nom. : Carthago
gen. : Carthaginis
dat. : Carthagini
acc. : Carthaginem
abl. : Cathagine

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Roma and Cathago are both female, so in both sentences it is delendam.

Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

[Pode]

The ablative tense? Is that the one that disappears first when the language starts to die out?

[anubis88]

Isn't it the Locative tense?

[bobbin]

Possibly the Locamotive tense?

[Tellos Athenaios]

The Locativus still has distinct traces in modern languages. For instance: "Go home".

[Ca Putt]

Romani ite Domum!

[Zett]

Romani ite Domum!

I love Monty Python. I mean, come on, what have they ever done for us? Ceterum censeo Romam esse delendam.

Back to topic, is there someone else, who encountered a naval blockade of a landbridge or even use this to block the AI?

[Fluvius Camillus]

I tried to block Sicily-Italy.

Didnt work as the crossing was diagonal....

[Leão magno]

Yes blockade works, even in diagonal land bidges, it just needs more than one vessel. I don't use it though because I love playing as Carthage and AI is so incompetent that it would be no fun on it, no one would be capable of assaulting Sicily

[Sarkiss]

Yes blockade works, even in diagonal land bidges, it just needs more than one vessel. I don't use it though because I love playing as Carthage and AI is so incompetent that it would be no fun on it, no one would be capable of assaulting Sicily

possibly, but that would be realistic. Carthage patrolled that strait at the beginning of the first Punic war and iirc Romans only managed to cross on small boats during the night catching Carthaginians off guard... otherwise no can do unless you defeat their fleet first.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

It is impossible to block a landbridge in RTW mods. Only in M2TW and ETW can you block a landbridge with ships.

[Duguntz]

wow... MAA just gave everybody what we call : a punch in the face!!! Kock out are all arguments about how wisely blocading landbridge!

[anubis88]

wow... MAA just gave everybody what we call : a punch in the face!!! Kock out are all arguments about how wisely blocading landbridge!

Except for me

[Leão magno]

It is impossible to block a landbridge in RTW mods. Only in M2TW and ETW can you block a landbridge with ships.

Beg to disagree... try putting three fleets in the straits and wait to see the AI try to pass... I don't know if it is technically a land bridge blockade or simply a an AI behaviour but they do not pass. Though I dont use this as a tactic, I used this in EB 0.8 I believe.

[MerlinusCDXX]

I don't think those ships actually blockade the crossing. They do exert zone of control though, so it could take 2,3, even 4 turns to make it past that crossing (depending on how many times the ZoC stops your movement.

[Aemilius Paulus]

They do exert zone of control though, so it could take 2,3, even 4 turns to make it past that crossing (depending on how many times the ZoC stops your movement.

Naval units do not exude a Zone of Control on land units, with that is what you are suggesting.

[miotas]

Perhaps if you had a unit inside the ship, would it exert a zone of control to stop enemy units?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Perhaps if you had a unit inside the ship, would it exert a zone of control to stop enemy units?

Nope, tried that. Once a unit is in a ship, it is no longer counted by anything. But from my experience, ships do block AI armies from crossing. Just as armies block diplomats from crossing bridges. Not because of zone of control or other stuff, but simply because there is no space to move.

[A Very Super Market]

Then it would work if you had several fleets "blocking" a landbridge, no?

[Aemilius Paulus]

Then it would work if you had several fleets "blocking" a landbridge, no?

AFAIK, one is enough, if you place it in the correct spot.