Impossible City?

[Melchizedek]

This is from turn 1 of an immortal game on the Fireaxis TSL Earth Map. I settled first, and Germany managed to settle in place, despite being only three hexes from London. Do you all think this a bug, or something special about capitols, or has there been a rule change I don't know about?

 

[agonistes]

Its the water between them. Cuts the minimum distance to two.

 

[Melchizedek]

Ah, interesting. I never encountered that before. Thanks for explaining!

 

[LethalLeigh]

Just make sure you buy as many of those resource tiles as you can. will really hurt them if you can grab those wheat tiles.
Also good target for an early conquest.

 

[whyidie]

If only you had Civ5 longbows, then you could truly fire across the channel in your quest to liberate German occupied...Germany!

 

[MaximusPlatypus]

Cities on different islands don't follow the placement rules. I believe it can even create situations where there's only 1 water tile between city centers.
I love putting troll encampments on the other side of a channel