Anybody seen this?

[Bowsling]

As the Vikings, I took Bangalore, the last Indian city. Unfortunately, they still had a settler/spearman pair wandering about, so I made peace with them. A few turns later, a message pops up telling me that India declared war on the Ottomans! Confused, I looked in what territory I know about the Ottomans. Then outside of Istanbul I notice Calcutta. They declared war on the Ottomans because they built a city within they're borders. After 2 turns, my foreign adviser tells me the Ottomans destroyed the Indians.
Well, so much for that attempt.

 

[EvilConqueror]

Do you mean that they declared war on the Ottomans in order to found the city? That's...quite interesting.

 

[CommandoBob]

Could be that building the city triggered the war.

If you build a city inside someone else's border, and you are at peace, the act of building a city is considered an act of war. Try it sometime; you'll get a pop-up from the Foreign Advisor asking you to wimp-out and not build the city.

 

[Lord Emsworth]

It is not uncommon. An AI that is down to a settler on a boat will generally try to found a new empire as soon as possible. Even if the chosen location for the first city is everything but good.

 

[Bowsling]

Could be that building the city triggered the war.

If you build a city inside someone else's border, and you are at peace, the act of building a city is considered an act of war. Try it sometime; you'll get a pop-up from the Foreign Advisor asking you to wimp-out and not build the city.

Yeah, I know. I did that once to get a source of saltpeter quickly back in my cheiftain days. Looking at my military adviser, there was another Indian settler, as the Ottomans had two captured Indian workers.

 

[Agent 89]

Actually, there was only one Indian settler. A captured settler will give you two slave worker, not one.

 

[Bowsling]

No, but India founded Calcutta near Istanbul, and that forced a declaration of war. I suppose India had another settler kickin' around, because in that war, Turkey took and Indian settler.