Your scout has died of attrition

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Ok, last night I played some Civ5 Multiplayer (damn fun by the way!) and my scout stumbled near some barbarians.

On the start of next turns I got two notices: one was a regular one I see all the time: "your scout has been killed by barbarian brute!" but above it was a notice
"your scout has died of attrition" (might have been "your scout has been killed by attrition", dont remember). Both messages had the icon of barbarian brute.

What is that message? I don't remember I have seen it in single player.
Also English isn't my native language so I'd like to know also what attrition means. :)

Thanks!
 
On my last MP game, every unit (of mine) that was killed, had both messages. Redundancy in the way messages are sent in MP settings.

I think the attrition one gives your screen name, and may be broadcast to all. I am not sure, since the only units being killed was an unknown player (to me) and mine. Has any one seen the message listing a known human's screen name and telling you that their unit was killed by attrition?
 
I don't play MP, but I can for sure I've never seen any message in SP that references "attrition".
 
I'm also curious about this, I've had it a few times, but wasn't quite sure what it meant.
I believe it's when an already wounded unit gets killed?
 
Haig said:
Could it be that Empire's economy goes negative and a unit is disbanded?
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I don't think so, I almost never have a negative budget.
Also, I believe it only happens when fighting a barbarian (though I'm not sure about it).

I think it's something like when your unit fights a barbarian outside friendly territory and only has one HP left, then dies anyway because of this mysterious attrition (although I'm, again, not certain).
 
Yeah, this is a bug. Every time I lose a unit to a barbarian I get this message. I only play MP, so it might well be MP-only.

It definitely isn't a negative-budget thing.
 
Gort said:
Yeah, this is a bug. Every time I lose a unit to a barbarian I get this message. I only play MP, so it might well be MP-only.

It definitely isn't a negative-budget thing.
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Oh those clever barbarians and their attrition warfare!
 
I'm not an original English speaker either, and I'm not sure about the term 'attrition', but I know it's in the game 'Rise of Nations', and I believe it was about taking extra damage for being in enemy territory.

I haven't come actross the term in Single Player, but if it's only in Multi Player, maybe it's used for taking damage, but not from one of the other players, and so taking damage from a barbarian would qualify for 'attrition'?
 
Iirc, you get this in the Korean scenario when one of the special forts, which take away a couple of hp per turn, kills a unit.

So the answer would be, you stayed near a special fort (or something similar), which relieves your units of hp each turn, for too long, and it is dead.
 
The_Quasar said:
Iirc, you get this in the Korean scenario when one of the special forts, which take away a couple of hp per turn, kills a unit.

So the answer would be, you stayed near a special fort (or something similar), which relieves your units of hp each turn, for too long, and it is dead.
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You might well get this message when a citadel kills a unit, but you also get it when any unit is killed by a barbarian in multiplayer. It is not the answer to this specific query.
 
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