2 Questions...Grayed Units and Missionaries

[criscusack]

Hello there,

I am LOVING this game. I can't wait for the Mac version to come out so I can play it without having to first Boot (Camp) my way into Windows, but even that inconvenience is well worth it.

I do have 2 questions that I'm hoping some of you CivFanatics can answer for me:

1) How does one build a Missionary unit if Monastaries have been made obsolete (by the Scientific Method technology)? I can find no reference to this in the manual or Strategy Guide?

2) Two of my Russian units have gone gray (one is a naval unit, one is a land unit). They have white dots next to them, which I thought indicated that they're automated in some way. However, one thing concerns me which is that they say Julius Caesar next to them. Do I need to have a conversation with Caesar? Has he somehow stolen my units? I confess I haven't really looked this up, but I am not sure how to start!

Thanks very much in advance...

--Cris

 

[MrCynical]

1) How does one build a Missionary unit if Monastaries have been made obsolete (by the Scientific Method technology)? I can find no reference to this in the manual or Strategy Guide?

You can still build missionaries in the cities that built monasteries prior to the invention of scientific method. You can also build missionaries anywhere if you switch to the organised religion civic.

2) Two of my Russian units have gone gray (one is a naval unit, one is a land unit). They have white dots next to them, which I thought indicated that they're automated in some way. However, one thing concerns me which is that they say Julius Caesar next to them. Do I need to have a conversation with Caesar? Has he somehow stolen my units? I confess I haven't really looked this up, but I am not sure how to start!

The units you're describing do belong to Caesar, and hence are greyed out since you have no control over them. There is no way to steal another civ's units. Two possibilities I can think of:

1)You're getting confused and the units were built by, and have always belonged to, Caesar.

2)You accidentally gave Caesar the units, but this would be very hard to do. The units would have had to have been in Caesar's territory, and I think you have to confirm gifting a unit if you click the gift button. I think it unlikely you could do this by accident.

 

[BeefontheBone]

Missionaries can still be built in cities with monasteries I believe, and certainly i you're running the religion civic which allows missionaries without monasteries. Not sure about the naval unit thing, but are you sure those aren't jusr Caesar's? Your units can share the same tile as other civs'.

 

[Hardvark]

2)You accidentally gave Caesar the units, but this would be very hard to do. The units would have had to have been in Caesar's territory, and I think you have to confirm gifting a unit if you click the gift button. I think it unlikely you could do this by accident.

I think that you only have to click on the gift button, there's no confirmation required. Someone gifted me an entire battlefleet by mistake in a MP game. I was honest and gifted it straight back!

 

[criscusack]

Thanks very much, everyone! I'm certain that those were errant Romans taking advantage of our Open Borders arrangement to come to Rostov and sample the fine Russian wine. The whole Religion aspect to this game is new to me, so thanks for the hep there too!