Explorer=the best units of the game(like spies in civ2)

[Traquenard-fx]

During peace( and no right of passage maybe), explorers are the most importants units for me now!!!
Yes, and you all want why???
I will tell you WHY!!!!
When a put a explorer in the AI borders, they complain only once(and I let it in their borders) and after that I fortified my explorer in a square where they have a strategic resource.
It seem that the AI have no longer access to that ressource and never build units that need that strategic resource(in my experience of what the explorer have see in is light squares, Japan have not build cavalry with all the ressources needed in is terratory).

Test this because I am not sure about this think and I don't want to remake that because is like cheating but for those who just want to win whatever the proceed can test this.
It SEEM to work

 

[nikitos]

Explorers are treated like any other units i believe

 

[eMarkM]

Hmmm, interesting idea.

I know I built an Explorer exactly once, in my first game. I thought it was the most useless unit there is. By the time you get it, there was nothing left to explore! But I do remember putting him on another continent--and like your experience--only was asked once by civ to remove him and after that he was free to roam anywhere he wanted. Hadn't occurred to me to plop him down on a resource square to peacefully deny someone the resource.

This surely must be tested!

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