how to get units off a transport ship

this forum had an old thread about this topic but the thread is now locked (closed to new posts) and the advice was NOT very straight forward

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getting units to unload out of a transport ship is NOT easy and certainly NOT self obvious

I am playing the Lord Relias of Altar scenario (the first scenario it gives out to play). if you beat an axeman army guarding a pier lair on the west coast near the Yithril Invasion city of Kett the reward is a transport ship. so I took off in this ship and then had a problem trying to unload my units

there are a VERY FEW number of coastal beach tiles in this scenario. most coastal tiles are CLIFFS which do NOT permit a boat to unload its units

the workaround is to use the water 3 'raise land' spell and create a beach next to the coastal cliff where you land to unload your units

BTW for some reason this scenario turned OFF the 'lower land' spell in earth 3 magic. I guess it really wants you to fight the monsters it has in a cliff wall maze to get to the treasure

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How did the player overcome the issue of the cliffs along the coast fnaf?

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using raise land will turn cliff tiles on the coast into beach tiles. best result for beachs are when there are at least two passable land tiles adjacent to where you cast raise land. with only one adjacent tiles water tiles may be created

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thought not related to transport ships another use of beach tiles is to dam up a river that dumps into a lake or sea. this may cause one or more of your cities to get an error that claims it is no longer contiguous with capital city and hence suffers a new 15% city unrest penalty

I have found no general rule of what triggers this bug. in some cases after a few turns the bug disappears one or more of the bugged cities (and hence the unjustified 15% city unrest penalty for those unbugged cities)

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