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I think it would be awsome addition - frozen river tiles - to our tile set.
They should connect to snowed shore and they should count as land + water tiles (like bridge) but they should require 2 movement points to move through for both land and water units. You still can build bridges and other water buildings on them as usual.

As for connection to current water tiles - i think there must be at least connection to normal water tiles.

For both aos, aof and maybe aoww.

That would be a nice implement to the game for Frozen campaign maps

All in all I support your Idea

@Lynx Shafir maybe?
@Endru1241 ?
Anyone?

Json changes would require changing all units, but it's doable. If it's ready (graphics, whole set and added as tile and tile group), when I'm gonna add road bonus movement it's not too much more, so I could do it for AoS.

the thing is that it is not ready.

So i am asking for someone who can do it.

I played a little with recoloring and mozaic distortion filter and managed to do something like this:

I'd say second will fit nice as actual one that i want and first one as "not-so-frozen" river (just another variant of normal river but for snowy shores).

What is left as for me now is smooth (somewhat) connection between these tiles and normal water.

A hybrid one additionally.

I made terrain_ice_water2.png (and now 3rd one) the sake of easier water connecting. Also for more logical look - it's something that's supposed to allow ship movement (and I doubt sail or oar powered icebreaker was possible). Floes or periodical thin ice could provide movement for infantry and maybe for mounted, but a little rougher.

I would make movement like that then:
ships 0.6
infantry 0.6
chariots/cavalry/camelry 0.2
elephants, siege machines and wagon - not allowed
Basically - fast ships have 3 movement, slower ships and infantry 2, mounted units 1 and heaviest untis need bridge/transport.

Maybe a bit higher speed for cavalry.

And nice work!

Now we need connection tiles between them and normal water (as well as between themselves? i think...)

@Stratego (dev) what is missing for this to add?

@Stratego (dev) what else is required for this one to implement?

maybe nothing special.
if somone have modding capability could try to put in.