1.61 gifting units in your transport & automatic city capture

`DG`

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1. put unit into transport
2. move transport ship into the borders of civ A who is at war with civ B. You have open borders with both A & B.
3. gift unit to civ A, who wont unload the unit (even if you put the transport into a city). This in itself appears to be a bug in similar vein to this report.
4. move your transport into a civ B city. It will award capture of the city to Civ A. Although the unit I performed this with was of superior strengh to B's city garrison, it was a single non-blitz unit against several units in the city, and capture was instant.


Players can abuse this to significant benefit if it is strategically beneficial to boost civ A at the expense of civ B. My experience makes for good example: Civ A was a friendly greek who was down to 1 city, Civ B was my closest competitor.
 
sparten117 are you the sparten 117 form the revora fourms


indeed a crazy exploit
i will report this to the civ 4 mtdg
 
I played around with the test game that Dave McW posted here. Exploit goes way deeper:

You can take the city with a scout. I'm tempted to test with a Great Artist. Tested with a Great Engineer, he was unable to take the city.
It doesn't have to be a transport; Galleons work too (and thus I'm guessing Galleys). Also tested Caravels and they're affected.
 
ChrTh said:
I played around with the test game that Dave McW posted here. Exploit goes way deeper:

You can take the city with a scout. I'm tempted to test with a Great Artist. Tested with a Great Engineer, he was unable to take the city.
It doesn't have to be a transport; Galleons work too (and thus I'm guessing Galleys). Also tested Caravels and they're affected.
Something I'm doing wrong...help !:cry:
I can't gift the warrior, but can gift the transport !
I'm unable to perform the exploit !!!
(patch 1.61)
 
andy_smaga said:
Something I'm doing wrong...help !:cry:
I can't gift the warrior, but can gift the transport !
I'm unable to perform the exploit !!!
(patch 1.61)
You can only gift the warrior if it is on a land tile. You can do this by moving the transport into the AI's city.
 
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