I captured a city! Without even fighting for it?

[Ultimate_Waffle]

No, it definately was not captured through culture. After a long history of warring, I decided to go through one last war with Hannibal. I took his new capital, and started healing my stack before heading towards his second to last city. In the mean time, I attacked his isolated city on the southern part of my continent. I managed to take it, and installed a new governor.

Here's the weird part, his very last city came into my control right after I did that. I didn't flip it through culture, and I didn't even fight for it. Has this happened to anybody else?

 

[ori]

its a known bug caused by marauding workers - anyway you might want to install Bhruic's unofficial patch

If you want the specific details...

What happens is there is a ship in the city with at least one worker on it. When you capture the city, normally what happens is any workers/settlers in the city are captured (settler is "captured" into a worker), and all other units in the city are destroyed. The bug is that the ship gets destroyed, which "bumps" the worker on board to the nearest city (of the Empire that used to own the city you just captured). But because the worker was in the city when you captured it, that worker still gets "captured" by you. This means you now have a worker sitting in an enemy city. Since having a unit in an enemy city is the "capture" condition, you immediately capture that new city.

And yes, you can actually "chain" capture this way. For giggles, I set up a test condition where I completely eliminated a 12 city Civ just by capturing a single city.


Bh

 

[BlueSoxSWJ]

Haha, this happened to me the other day and I thought it was an Easter Egg instead of a bug. Specifically, I captured an enemy capital, with a great general, by defeating a great general; I figured the "high stakes war hero vs. war hero" battle had something to do with it. Oh well, it only avoided a few casualties - I had stacks ready to take the other two cities that turn anyways.