Here's an odd one: Playing as Russia in 60% continent, I've pretty much covered one entire continent. There were a few, one or two tile gaps here and there. Then, there was a 15 tile long column, two columns wide, zig-zagging through the middle of my continent made up mostly of desert, with a few tiles of flood plain, that my culture growth hadn't covered.
Suddenly, an Indian Caravel landed and dropped off two elephants and a settler in this column. Since I didn't want an Indian city plopped down in the middle of the continent, I surrounded one of the elephants and a settler with Cossacks and pinned them to a mountain on the shore. Then I built a settler and plopped a city into one of the floodplain tiles, effectively blocking his progress completely, as the immediate growth separated his settler and elephant from the nearest open tile by about ten tiles (I put Cossacks in the whatever open tiles were left.
However, one of the elephants had gotten through before I placed the Cossacks, and ran up the zig-zag corrider. Two turns later, he was gone!
Disappeared! After I had packed the continent I let the settler and elephant go. Now they're sitting on a single tile of tundra at the top of the map with nowhere to go. But that other elephant never showed up again. Poof. So, what happened? Any ideas?
Suddenly, an Indian Caravel landed and dropped off two elephants and a settler in this column. Since I didn't want an Indian city plopped down in the middle of the continent, I surrounded one of the elephants and a settler with Cossacks and pinned them to a mountain on the shore. Then I built a settler and plopped a city into one of the floodplain tiles, effectively blocking his progress completely, as the immediate growth separated his settler and elephant from the nearest open tile by about ten tiles (I put Cossacks in the whatever open tiles were left.
However, one of the elephants had gotten through before I placed the Cossacks, and ran up the zig-zag corrider. Two turns later, he was gone!
Disappeared! After I had packed the continent I let the settler and elephant go. Now they're sitting on a single tile of tundra at the top of the map with nowhere to go. But that other elephant never showed up again. Poof. So, what happened? Any ideas?
, so I reloaded
