Acquisition of My Territory

[Cicerosaurus]

I did a search and can't find an answer to my question.

Can boundaries of cities now change as they used to in BTS?

Background. I was playing as Bouadecia on King level, continents plus, large map. Austria next door starts helping itself to my territory.

They didn't use a great general and the ended up cutting my trade route.

There is nothing in civi about this.

(Then again I saw a Netherlands Mohawk warrior and I don't think that was supposed to happen).

 

[Thyrwyn]

(Then again I saw a Netherlands Mohawk warrior and I don't think that was supposed to happen).

Military City States also give Unique Units from civs that are not in the current game.

 

[Harv72b]

Yeah, the Netherlands Mohawk Warrior was from a militaristic city state; I had a large army of Austrian musketeers in one game.

No idea on the border changing, though--that shouldn't happen without the use of a great general. The only non-glitch things I can think is that maybe you got mixed up about which tiles were in your territory (happens to me all the time), or maybe they bought up a friendly city state that was part of your trade route?

 

[Ribannah]

Since the latest vanilla patch, which was derived from Gods and Kings, there have been false messages about broken trade routes. So perhaps your trade route wasn't really broken either.

 

[AriochIV]

I've been getting those phantom messages about trade routes being broken since long, long before the patch.

However, the only mechanism I know of in G&K to change existing territory without capturing cities is still the Culture Bomb.

 

[Cicerosaurus]

No- there was no city state. The ground was definitely mine and they did intrude- hard to miss the big red blob of Austria.

Again the trade route was certainly broken. The symbols disappeared from the cities affected and revenue fell. I used a GG to take back the territory and status quo was restored.

Unfortunately I don't have a saved game.

I would have agreed with Harv except I had noticed her land getting closer (she had established a city close to the edge of my territory) and I ensured my trade route was in my territory. Well it was safe for a while!

 

[Cicerosaurus]

Arioch, I have been getting phantom messages about broken trade routes as well. Generally they apply (for me) when I have a city with more than one trade route (maybe road and a port) and one gets broken. The computer never differentiated.

This certainly was not a phantom call.

 

[Hyper Nova]

Tiles can't flip if that's what your asking, most likely the road passed through 1 neutral tile you thought was yours but wasn't then the ai aquired it and broke the route.




And yeah Phantom messages occurred when you build a harbour but already had a road. It confused the poor thing.

 

[pspboy7]

One game I played I was constantly being gifted Cossacks, it rocked hehe.