In vanilla Civ4 multiplayer, a player could gift his melee units to an Aggressive-trait civ player, they'd get the Combat-I promotion, and the Aggressive player could then gift them back with the promotion. I've been told that Warlords, or at least the 2.08 patch, eliminates this exploit. Can anyone tell me for sure?

Yes, this exploit has been gone for a long time now, don't remember when exactly the fix came.

Might have even been back on 1.61. It's definitely gone on 2.08 though. ;)

I really hate how you can gift UUs to the opponent, that really should not happen, they should revert back to the original unit that the UU replaces.

In the case of Fast Workers they do. But I think it's fair that UU's stay the same. After all, only one nation can build those UU's, so there can only be a limited number in the world anyway. If that nation chooses to gift them away, then so be it... it doesn't really change anything much, so it's not an exploit. :)

it doesn't really change anything much, so it's not an exploit. :)

It's slightly unbalancing if you can gather an army than includes mutiple, complementary UUs. Like an army with both Redcoats and Cossaks. Or Musketeers and Conquistadors. Now that I think of it, that should make for an excellent medieval stack :mischief:

the person gifting would recieve something in return more than likely so i dont see it as an exploit as it is merely the same thing as trading units normally or tech/cities etc