Shallow Water Hexes

[mkr8683]

Is there any way to make a lot of -1 water hexes at once, or are we restricted to making them one hex at a time?

[Mobhack]

They are edge hexes for lakes so if you use the area fill function you'll get lakes. So one at a time e.g. if you want to male a 1-hex wide canal.

Andy

[DRG]

It's been awhile since I played with the map editor but as I recall it's one at a time as it's not really something that usually is changed in large amounts.

It is possible with the extended map editor to cut a section of shallow water and paste it into deep water to create a type of reef that will prevent LC from passing but allow amphibs to cross

What is it you are trying to do ?

Don

[mkr8683]

I'm trying to create a large, shallow bay at low tide with numerous cuts and inlets. The scenario I'm setting up will have ships, and I don't want them to be able to get too close to the shoreline. I also want people to accidentally run them aground in the shallow water.

Didn't think of the cut and paste in the extended version. That will probably be the solution.

[DRG]

It won't do exactly what you want but you should be able to prevent the ships from getting too close to the shoreline.

Don

[mkr8683]

It's been a while since I tested it, but I seem to remember ships generally get stuck in shallow water hexes. I'll fire those test scenarios up again and give an update.