Defenders abandon city to barbarians

[Woodgar]

Defenders abandon city to barbarians.

How to reproduce: load the save game and press "enter" to end the current turn.

Observation: I have a small stack of defenders in the city of York who, on the previous turn, have beaten back an attacking stack of barbarian horse archers. There is only one surviving barbarian horse archer and he is severly wounded. Upon pressing "enter" to end my current turn I am expecting the horse archer to attack the city again and for my defending archers to finish him off. However, what actually happens is that my stack of defenders "teleport" out of the city allowing the horse archer to just walk in and take the now undefended city.

Also, if I select the archers and give them a "fortify" order to ensure that I have not accidentaly given them a "goto" command, they still teleport away as before.

Other info: this is a fully patched version of BtS (version 3.13 with Bhruic's patch) running on Vista Home Premium.

 

[Ammar]

Defenders abandon city to barbarians.

How to reproduce: load the save game and press "enter" to end the current turn.

Observation: I have a small stack of defenders in the city of York who, on the previous turn, have beaten back an attacking stack of barbarian horse archers. There is only one surviving barbarian horse archer and he is severly wounded. Upon pressing "enter" to end my current turn I am expecting the horse archer to attack the city again and for my defending archers to finish him off. However, what actually happens is that my stack of defenders "teleport" out of the city allowing the horse archer to just walk in and take the now undefended city.

Also, if I select the archers and give them a "fortify" order to ensure that I have not accidentaly given them a "goto" command, they still teleport away as before.

Other info: this is a fully patched version of BtS (version 3.13 with Bhruic's patch) running on Vista Home Premium.

Can confirm. Tried two other things :

a) move units out and back into the city. Bug still occurs.
b) Kill the barbarian horse archer. Bug does not occur.

 

[sanarchy]

Had something slightly different but maybe it'll help the developers.
I once declared war on a civ by moving troops into it's territory, the troops were immediately [after the "you declared war on.."] placed on another bordering tile, also in it's territory but not at the spot i moved them to.

 

[Woodgar]

Can confirm. Tried two other things :

a) move units out and back into the city. Bug still occurs.
b) Kill the barbarian horse archer. Bug does not occur.

Thanks for confirming this. At least I now know that it's not a problem with my local installation.

I did come across another report about this (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=266365) whilst searching for an existing solution, but that was all I could find. It's interesting to note that the other poster had a very similar situation, ie barbarian horse archers forcing out the defenders.

As you also discovered, killing the single barbarian ensures that the defenders stay put, but that will not always be a viable solution.

On the plus side, at least the bug does seem to be pretty rare.