Quote Originally Posted by Upxl
Like that building bridges should be done the same way as a fort/tower?
The amount of time it takes depending on the civ. technology, army(ore engineers troops of some sort) and river wide?
That would be good, although you shouldn't need to walk a family member by the river to initiate the construction. Just to point at the desired location on the river somehow. Some other ideas:

- A bridgeless and fordless river would be crossable on the strat map by building rafts. This would require a general in the army, and the army would have to keep standing still by the river for some turns (not that it'd take much time to build rafts, but other factions need a chance to react and move their troops to interfere with the crossing).
- If a hostile faction places troops on the other side of the river, you cannot cross with rafts safely.
- If a hostile faction has ships/boats on the river, you cannot cross with rafts. You first need to get some ships/boats of your own and drive away the enemy.
- To build and maintain ships/boats you need to build a river port.
- River ports would be buildable where you control the territory at least one side of the river.