Galley v's Musket?

I thought that ships could not attack a city (other than by bombardment) but in my latest game a Carthaginian galley attacked a city defended by my Incan musket - and lost. Has anyone heard of this happening before?

This is Civ3 Conquests and it was a standard Carthage galley and not a Byzantine dromon or a Scandinavian berserk that attacked me. It is the Middle Ages so well before marines. I have no ships in port. The galley sailed up to my city, I received the message 'Carthage has declared war on us' and the galley attacked my defending musket. The musket was unscathed but the ship sank. What gives here? I thought only ground units could attack settlements.

The galley in this pic is the active unit, the other troops have already moved.

Did you have a Coastal Fortress built in Vilcabamba?

It's a reacurring bug. There have been several threads on this subject already:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=296861
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123013
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=97130
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=96834
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=72441

Cyc - no coastal fortress

Civinator - thanks for that, so it is just a bug. An old one too from those posts, going back to 2003.

Civ3 never fails to surprise me.

Interesting. It doesn't look like anyone has lost such a battle yet. And none of the reports have anything more recent than a Frigate.

Quintillus said:

Interesting. It doesn't look like anyone has lost such a battle yet. And none of the reports have anything more recent than a Frigate.

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Yes, but the bug shouldn´t be mixed up with the very similar "privateer-bug", where a battle can be lost and the attacking ships can have qualities exceeding the unit stats of a frigate by far:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpo...6&postcount=87
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpo...0&postcount=90
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=325290&page=2

what is this bug?

There must be something more to this. I was just fooling around with it in debug, and I couldn't incite an AI to actually attack the city. If I had a privateer as the only unit in the city and the AI unit was able to bombard, they would DOW me and continuously bombard the city. Otherwise, they would just sail away.

ı get attacked by galleys about once a year when ı come to think of it , and it tends to start a war between the AI and me .

maurcus said:

what is this bug?

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Privateers sail without a flag - so they have no nationality. You can attack them without declaring war.
But if you have one in one of your cities, and an AI wants to attack it, it will trigger a war because not the privateer, but a defender will defend the attacked tile.

The submarine bug is that submarines are invisible to most ships - so just sailing across the seven seas can trigger a war if you blindly run into a sub.

oh ok