Gifting military units

[Dark Ascendant]

Has anyone else noticed that when you gift someone a unit they can't build, there's a chance that it makes a "breakthrough" in their science and they get a free tech?

 

[ElephantU]

No - interesting - can you post a SAV file? Was that Single Player or Multi Player?

 

[Dark Ascendant]

Single, I found it in a scenario and tested it on some other games and the same thing happened. It's not some isolated event.

 

[Prof. Garfield]

I have had that happen, but not all the time.

 

[moof]

There have been many times when trying to help out a weak civ by gifting a military unit and it does not give the advancement with any regularity. Sometimes it gets the advancement & sometimes it doesn't and sometimes when it does not give the advancement the civ will refuse the second unit saying they have no need for the inferior units.
Anyway that is one of many storys of the fustrations of trying to help a weak civ to become strong enough to be an ally against a more militaristic civ.

 

[Dark Ascendant]

That and the fact that if I gift a cavalry unit, they get banking. Huh?

Banking? That has nothing to do with Tactics or its prequisites.