The Great Lakes inaccessible to ships?

[Mgellis]

By the way, it is possible to edit the map elevations by creating zones and then editing them with the Area/Reference Points Manager. You need to create a custom environment zone and then use the Edit CEZ button to open up the local environment settings window. I created a "first draft" of a Lake Ontario-Lake Erie channel for my "try things out" scenario and have attached a screenshot here. I found the controls to be a little finicky, so doing this for the whole Great Lakes will be a bit of a pain, but it is possible. (You can even do this for rivers, like the Mekong, so you can theoretically create an Apocalypse Now scenario, but I really wish the map had just been set up this way originally.)

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[thewood1]

Coincidently, the same solution was posted on Steam yesterday.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1076160/ ... 594176609/

[Rob322]

Technically, you can place ships in a couple places. There are parts of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that are deep enough the lake bed sits below sea level. Ice is a great excavator. Also, good place to stick an SSBN or three during the cold war. I checked and I did place the Ohio on the US side of the border.

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[Mgellis]

Oh, yes. Superior. Gordon Lightfoot wasn't kidding when he sang about her icewater mansions. That lake is deep.

(Actually, while I hope we never find out, I wouldn't be at all surprised if we have parked a boomer down there from time to time...you wouldn't be able to get an enemy submarine in there so you wouldn't be able to track it and the lake is so huge there are lots of place to hide. There's a reason people set horror novels around that lake...)

Technically, you can place ships in a couple places. There are parts of Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that are deep enough the lake bed sits below sea level. Ice is a great excavator. Also, good place to stick an SSBN or three during the cold war. I checked and I did place the Ohio on the US side of the border.