Flying units flying over mountains and water

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Is this new or have I just been missing something the entire life of Elemental.  I have a flying unit and while using it for scouting it auto flew over water and mountains.  Is this intended or is this a bug?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top


Flying units are able to fly over mountains and water. I do recall air elementals in particular can get rather tricky when they come up over a mountain to surprise you.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Why is water just scenery in this game?  Why not have to get out to islands, etc.?  Is this too complicated to implement?  Or is the consensus that it just isn't worth doing?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

There are sometimes islands out in the water. You can get to these islands by land bridges from the spell raise land. Islands are not a real part of the game due to boats and the poor mechanics dealing with boats. If you have really good suggestions about boats, I'm sure that they would like to listen to them and see if they are easily implemented. At this time though the general consensus from the developers is that boats are just too big of a problem for how they are implemented.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

thanks for the info parrottmath.  i never ever realized they could do that.  geeze.