Modernized Trap (Civ6)

Modernized Trap
Introduced in Portugal Pack
Game mode	Zombie Defense
Built by	Military Engineer
Unlocked by	Ballistics
Plunder	Cannot be plundered.
Effects
Deals significant (20HP) damage to, and depletes the movement of, hostile units passing through it.
Notes
The tile cannot be worked. Does not prevent unit movement through this space.

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The Modernized Trap is a special tile improvement in Civilization VI. It is exclusive to the Zombie Defense game mode, introduced in the Portugal Pack. It can be built by a Military Engineer on any tile inside your own or neutral territory.

• Effects:
  • Deals 20 HP damage to, and depletes the Movement of, hostile units passing through it.
  • The tile cannot be worked.

Strategy

The Modernized Trap is one of the two late-game defenses used in the Zombie Defense game mode. In contrast with the Reinforced Barricade, which does moderate damage in a wide area, the Modernized Trap deals significant damage on one tile and slows down units.

Unlike the Trap upon which it improves, the Modernized Trap is built by a Military Engineer, making it generally more expensive to create. Its damage output is fairly low, but is not dependent on the Strength of the enemy unit. This makes this weapon much more useful against enemies with very high strength, such as Zombies with a high Mutation Strength Modifier. Generally, though, players will have access to other means of defeating Zombies at this point in the game.

Civilopedia entry

As the years have gone on, we have learned more about the undead menace. Earlier traps involved using live humans (voluntary or otherwise) as bait, but engineers have developed chemical or animal substitutes. In addition, hollow-point or anti-personnel bullets provide increased damage to tissue and increased accuracy. Not every archer is William Tell, able to bullseye an apple with a crossbow bolt, and rifling and scopes mean more and more precise “kills”, and bunkers with snipers work just as well against the dead as they do against other enemies. Refined petroleum and napalm allow zombies – or human enemies - to be disintegrated in ways earlier materials could not. Additionally, modern traps play upon zombies’ weaknesses: a horde of undead endlessly marching in a circle, chasing a brain on a mechanical track as in a dog-racing circuit can be far more effective than a simple pit.

Gallery

Modernized Traps in-game

Related achievements

It's a Trap!!! Deal 50 or more damage to a single unit from trap damage on a single tile in one turn. A reference to Admiral Ackbar's exclamation in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi.