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* Used in-'verse in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. Living flesh blocks any [[Planescape|ethereal]] travel. So, all the walls of high-security buildings either have gorgon blood mixed into the mortar or [[Organic Technology|are sort of alive]] and thus impenetrable for self-styled ghosts, but what to do with its door? Simplest solution is a big sentry blocking the doorway.

** Even nastier if there's reaction fire or attack of opportunity, AI doesn't see "crushing anyone in the way" as a valid route ''and'' mission targets or [[I Shall Taunt You|taunting]] units has overriding priority. Attackers may run the gauntlet without retaliation while trying to get there via the only unblocked, but heavily guarded way.

* In ''[[Civilization]]'' 2, this could get extremely annoying because this game had the concept of ''zone of control'', which made it impossible for all but a few special units to move adjacent to squares surrounding an enemy unit, meaning that a rival civ could jam large portions of land with cheap mooks controlling not just their own square but all squares surrounding them, and you cannot get past them without sparking a war or negotiating a right-of-passage agreement. Naturally, you cannot utilize this rule because it only applies to the player; computer-control civs can ignore zone-of-control all they want without consequence. Thankfully, zone-of-control was not a concept which remained in the series past this game.

* In the ''[[X-COM]]'' series, when fighting aliens in a Terror Zone (or later-game equivalents), NPC civilians would occasionally block a doorway or stairwell, preventing the passage of your soldiers. Fortunately, this being ''X-Com'', you have several options aside from just waiting for them to move. You can shoot them (and lose points), stun them (avoiding loss of points, AND ensuring that they won't get a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]] and end up converted to Chyrssalids), Mind Control them out of the way (which turns them hostile towards you afterwards, since for mind control purpose there are effectively two "sides" toggled - they can't harm you, but your soldiers will reaction-fire at them), or [[Bullethole Door|shoot a hole in a nearby wall]] and walk around them. On upper floors, there's even the hilarious option of shooting the floor out from under them, causing them to harmlessly fall to the floor below.

* ''[[Advanced Strategic Command]]'' has a partial variation: allows units to bypass each other depending on circumstances, and certainly if they are on different height - so no catching airplanes with tanks or vice versa (or rather, not with reasonable number of them). But since an unit isn't allowed to ''stop'' on any hex with another unit even on a different height, it can be forced to either hold back or get too close - which denies advantage of longer-range weapons. For example: if suitable places 2 hexes away are blocked by hovercrafts or planes, a submarine will have to pass into the hex under reaction fire from depth charges (range 1) of a cruiser instead of shooting torpedo (range 2) at it with impunity as usual (popping up to shoot the blocking unit is a bad idea, as it invites reaction fire from the cruiser's cannon and possibly blocking unit, then retaliation fire for shooting at range 1, then it's enemy's turn...). So with a little forethought unreachable units squatting on the optimal approach help layered reaction fire to wipe out several attackers before they get to shoot - normally multiple units can get away with modest damage after drawing fire of longest-range weapons to allow passage for other units, but not when everything shoots them at once.