Not sure whether this is considered a game design bug or an unfortunate event. I have just conquered Tours (formerly French's) which is located on a small peninsula. Now because i had not yet Open Borders with the French, now my naval fleet is stucked!! I have just secured a peace treaty with the French and i dont think Napolean is willing to open borders anytime soon....

LOL. I had the same thing happen with ground troops taking an Egyptian city. They got stuck because of the cultural border. I learned that game that signing a cease fire too quickly is not a good thing. I had a solid 2/3s of my army stuck there and could not get them over to where Isabella had decided to invade. Will only happen once.

I hope for you that you will be able to increase your borders as soon as the unrest is over.
If not (and the french cultural borders look damned stable ;) ) your ships will be stuck there till an open borders treaty or the next war with the french :D

This is definitely a problem everyone will have once and only once :)
After you've seen it, you're much more careful about where your troops are before you agree to peace ...

Or never. If you have seen this post before you had chance to make mistake.
Indeed, thank you for posting that.

Well, other than that battleship you don't look too bad. Now drop the heavy end of the hammer on the franks in a couple of turns.

Thread title changed to sound a little less explicit... (seeing how some might interpret the screenshot...

I didn't interpret it that way until you said something! Thanks. :(

Okay my brain is normally one that would interpret things in a, well, wrong light, but I totally didn't see anything until that. :blush:

But, yeah, cultural borders can definitely be brutal.

Ah don't worry, the city will flip back to France soon anyway ;)

Yes... you would have been better off razing whatever city it is that is exerting that large cultural radius.

OMIGOD I never ever saw the picture in 'that way' until it was brought up. This should go in Funny Screenshots also.

Proof that I hang around the staff forum too much. :p Let's get this back on topic...

what was the original title?

lol i have tried this too.. once. Only that I was in the French position :king:
The stupid americans attacked me and I then agreed a peace by giving them one of my cities.

close to the agreed city was a city of mine that had highly developped culture. My culture border surrounded the now American city so they couldnt get troops in to defend it :D

I was hoping for a flip but it never came and after 700 years or so they managed to get a passage through so they could send reinforcements :(

you need a great artist!

I think someone needs to, ah, help Chieftess with her needs. She's seeing things :)

Heh, I had something similar happen in one of my games.

I had a battleship bombarding an enemy city which was located just below a bunch of ice tiles, at the top of the map. And when I made peace with the civ the ship got booted out of their cultural borders.

Of course, when my ship was moved, the game chose the closest water tile outside their borders...which just happened to be a single tile surrounded by impassable ice on two sides and their border on the other two sides. :lol:

And since I had a peace treaty (without open borders) with the civ, I couldn't move my battleship anywhere.

I'm not going to leave this thread until I know what the original title was :)

I was in the French position
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Careful - Chieftess might misinterpret that one too :D .