Gifting units

[Rex Lex]

Hi, this is my first post....

I was playing a game yesterday: Continents, standard size, on noble. I was the tech leader, and doing pretty well. My island was all peace and quiet, no aggression at all. (I used the ai civ to my north as a buffer from Hannibal) The other continent was ruled by Napoleon and 3 other smaller ai civs. I did not want to get involved when Nap started vassalising the smaller civs, but at the same time I didn’t want him to control the entire continent. So when he attacked Isabella I declined her when she wanted help. This made her annoyed towards me. But I sent her 3-4 galleons with units, which I unloaded and then gifted to her.

The gift did not seem to influence her opinion of me. After a few rounds I had a spy on the scene. The units had not been moved even though Nap had his invasion army only a few squares of to the side mowing towards her capitol. After a few more rounds, she capitulated. The units were never used.

Question: Will the AI use gifted units? Can gifting units make the ai friendlier towards me?

 

[semirami]

Its well known, that AI uses gifted caravel+misionray to spread your religion. I dont know how about military units.

Can gifting units make the ai friendlier towards me?

definitely no.

Btw I would like to have a different way to help an AI in war, not olny "join us to destroy...", like military help, resource help, gold help etc., without going in war.

 

[Rex Lex]

Supplying your enemy's enemy with weapons should be possible. Stingers and what not....

 

[Refar]

Supplying your enemy's enemy with weapons should be possible. Stingers and what not....

Just gift them a nuke.