Fooled Me!
Feb. 2nd, 2019 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowIn setting up a game of Civ VI, you're allowed to choose (among other things) the general configuration of the map. The default is Continents, with two large continents and a scattering of islands. Other options include Pangaea, Archipelago, and Inland Sea (which should be self-explanatory), plus Fractal (which has landforms generated pretty much at random) and Shuffle (the description of which is a coy "Who knows?").
For my current game, I decided to try a Fractal map. (All of my previous games have been on Continents.) I'm playing as Cleopatra. Montezuma is to my southeast, limiting expansion there. I've pushed as far to the northeast as I can without risking war with Seondeok of Korea. There are a couple of city-states to my west, so I have a bit more room to maneuver there, but they block off the further west from my Scouts. I spotted a narrow isthmus which would allow me access to those areas by sea, once I acquired Shipbuilding, and I planted a colony there, on a one-tile-wide part of the isthmus. Ho ho, now I can pass between the seas on either side! I build a couple of Galleys and set sail.
Both of them are inland seas, dammit.
For my current game, I decided to try a Fractal map. (All of my previous games have been on Continents.) I'm playing as Cleopatra. Montezuma is to my southeast, limiting expansion there. I've pushed as far to the northeast as I can without risking war with Seondeok of Korea. There are a couple of city-states to my west, so I have a bit more room to maneuver there, but they block off the further west from my Scouts. I spotted a narrow isthmus which would allow me access to those areas by sea, once I acquired Shipbuilding, and I planted a colony there, on a one-tile-wide part of the isthmus. Ho ho, now I can pass between the seas on either side! I build a couple of Galleys and set sail.
Both of them are inland seas, dammit.
