{"id":53,"date":"2005-03-31T22:56:03","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T02:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2006-01-01T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T15:01:00","slug":"the-bridge-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge too far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">P<\/span>laying <a href='.\/wp-content\/bridgeplease.jpg'><img src='.\/wp-content\/sm_bridgeplease.jpg' style=\"float:right;margin:5px;\"alt='Bridge too far' \/><\/a> the last years\/rounds in a CivIII game, I noticed how close the opponent was. If one could only make bridges to cross channels like the one shown in the picture. A waste of time to build transports.\n<\/p>\n<p>Also, notable is that, yes, in this game I&#8217;m about to beat my opponents since they&#8217;re all  still in the Wooden-Boat-with-Sail Age. Here&#8217;s the kicker: Their galleys are able to destroy my <em>steel<\/em> transports. Why? The game defines transports as &#8216;non-attacking-no-defense&#8217; units. Hilarious.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, playing original Civilization III is always fun and a challenge. Even when the opponents are still in the Stone Age. Rocks can hurt, you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing the last years\/rounds in a CivIII game, I noticed how close the opponent was. If one could only make bridges to cross channels like the one shown in the picture. A waste of time to build transports. Also, notable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}