Quote Originally Posted by LegioXXXUlpiaVictrix
But SOME cities must have had direct control to the sea. If I'm not completely wrong I believe Athens had an extra wall reaching all the way down to the sea, for example. Byzantium is maybe not a good example as they didn't become a major city until after the R:TW time scope but the byzzies had a major strategical advantage with their sea access, which is what made it possible for them to endure some of the worst sieges they had. What I had in mind was that some cities would have a strategical importance due to them being impossible to starve unless the port could be blockaded. It'd probably only be a few cities in the R:TW period, but for those cities it'd really be a nice addition imo.
i said most, of some cities had direct acces to their port. and the port was directly in the city. Athens did had those walls but actually the port wasn't directly connected to the city.