Different kind of obstacles

[dvberkel]

I would like to see different kind of obstacles. I am thinking of

• mountains that are indestructible
• marshes that would low soldiers down

[AJFaraday]

I'm still not sure how I am going to achieve any of this, but I've had an idea and this seemed like the best place to put it.

Walls - A wall has a set health, probably 5. It's impassable, until this health is depleted, but doesn't attack back like soldiers do.

Question is, does a wall take damage every turn? Here's the problem

turn					wall
t1			1		W5
t2	1			1	W4
t3		1		1	W3
t4			1	1	W2
t5	1			2	W0

This way, it doesn't seem to allow much grouping until the wall falls. Perhaps a group of walls together.

[dvberkel]

Good questions. I will reflect on this before I come back to you

[AJFaraday]

Idea: A city will clear the adjacent land, removing all adjacent obstacles. This means that building a city against, say, a mountain, would remove it as an option for the opponent to build against.

Pros:

• This adds a new mini-goal, to build those strategically important centre board cities first.
• It prevents un-finishable game scenarios, created by random board generation.

Cons:

• This may weaken the value of impassable obstacles in a game design scenario.

[AJFaraday]

I've implemented the simplest obstacle type, rocks (completely impassable, randomly placed) in this PR #7

[AJFaraday]

The initial 'rocks' use-case can now be tested at www.right-twix.com and righttwix.com

[AJFaraday]

I've implemented the initial, simplest obstacle, 'rocks', which will act as a pattern for the others.

Other obstacle types are now logged as #11 and #12.

I'm closing this issue to continue further work on those tickets.

Thanks again @dvberkel for taking an interest in the project.