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Thanks for taking that on board! he new troops look fantastic too!  Especially the historians

You guys are all absolute geniuses and the whole thing looks unbelievably awesome.  When you were discussing things earlier though, I got the impression that the Cam was going to be more like sea in RTW, and given the emphasis on water trade in the faction descriptions it seems a shame not to include it in this mod! 

I realise there are problems with this idea: mainly that it would restrict foot crossing of the Cam, and that it raises the question what to use as the boat design. 

Restricted movement -  I'd initially like to suggest that a lack of bridges might not be a real problem, in that they could be made entirely redundant with boats.  There could be even be some sort of defensive justification for destroying them.  If this is unacceptable, there are probably real solutions too; I'm sure I remember some sort of green link allowing movement from Italy into Sicily in the Medieval version.  Also, a narrowing to river width might allow a bridge, but this does seem to defeat the purpose of the Cam sea!  The floor is open!

As for boats - punts would be just too awesome but I realise there might be serious difficulty in creating the artwork for these!  If not punts, I really don't think a novel boat design is very important, in fact, the more medieval (and early modern for the historical sticklers) the better really for a Cambridge river college battle!  It's just the idea of navies dominating the Cam and blockading college ports which is the exciting part. 

Anyway, a bit of a rambling post so sorry about that.  Really don't see this as any sort of criticism of your already awesome achievements, I just thought I would propose a possible tweak which I feel might add an extra dimension to the game play!  Thanks!