Civilians Destroyed Instead of Capture

[Chibisuke]

I'm not sure if this was something implemented in a patch, since I haven't seen anyone talking about it. I have noticed lately that sometimes when I defeat an enemy unit (sometimes in a city, sometimes out on land), and they have a worker or settler with them, the worker or settler gets destroyed rather than captured. Is this a new feature? A bug?

 

[eleven11]

Make sure you don't capture the city with a battering ram or siege tower attached to your unit. The support unit will overwrite the civilian unit as only one can occupy a tile.

 

[Chibisuke]

I considered that too, but I'm playing a game now and I simply captured the city with a warrior. The city had a warrior and settler camping inside. After I captured, the settler was destroyed.

I even tried doing it with the city still having some health left vs the city having no health left. Both times, the settler was destroyed.

 

[liv]

It seems to happen randomly. Sometimes you capture a unit and other times you don't (and this is without a support unit). I have not been able to spot a pattern

 

[WillowBrook]

Also, if you have a great general or admiral attached to the capturing unit, the captured civilian unit will disappear. And I don't think I've ever successfully captured an embarked civilian unit.

 

[Rosty K]

And I don't think I've ever successfully captured an embarked civilian unit.

I have. The only times when this becomes a problem are when you don't have shipbuilding yet - the unit gets stuck forever.

 

[Mazyrian]

I have. The only times when this becomes a problem are when you don't have shipbuilding yet - the unit gets stuck forever.

This happened to me in my current game with Norway; is there really no way to ever use those units?

 

[sixty4half]

I just had this issue in my current game. Moved a Frigate onto a Settler and the Settler just disappeared. I reloaded and moved a Caravel onto it and captured it.