Bridges

[bunkerhill]

OH great ones who have done all of this before... troubled with getting a bridge to show correctly... tried to have a road and train span a 'shallow water' hex from the land hex on either side vs crossing a 'river' line that divides a single hex...

On my scenario map the road and rail can be seen under water, it allows rail movement but no road movement across.

I think the masters solved this, but how? My regrets, I have been searching the forum and looking at the various guides, so if I have missed something already covered, just point me please to the source for me to study up on... thanks!

[terminator]

Maybe this is the solution ?

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[bunkerhill]

Aye, of course, but not visually appealling to have the river shrink all of a suddden, ah well, it will work

[conboy]

I'm pretty sure that's the only way.

conboy

[bunkerhill]

I'm just going to readjust my mapping in the scenario and use river up to the bridgepoint then shift to shallow water, thanks for the words

[StuccoFresco]

I'm pretty sure that's the only way.

conboy

I can confirm this with my own aneddotical evidence.

[Erik2]

Visually it is better if a rail/road combo enters/exits a hex on the same sides.
Crossroads and rivers (or vice versa) doesn't look too good together as well.

[bunkerhill]

Just for fun, I created that disaster mentioned above... made a temp N/S road and river and the crossed it twice... bridges are all messed up!




In reality, I just abandoned using shallow water for a river and it works for the purpose needed in the scenario.

[terminator]

Bridge constructor :

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[StuccoFresco]

Woah that's a clever solution!

[Erik2]

And if you use swamp terrain under the bridges it will slow down traffic across the bridge as well.

[Zbrozlo]

I don’t know if anyone’s already thought of this idea or if it’s useful to anyone, but I’m talking about shallow water hexes that imitate a wide river in some scenarios. I’ve always felt they were missing some decoration, like destroyed bridges (since you can’t actually build bridges on this type of hex). So, I made something like that. Basically, as I said, it’s just decoration, but it adds some atmosphere.

[StuccoFresco]

Nice detail!