[NOT A BUG] Persian Immortal moving 3 hexes?

[lschnarch]

I have just checked with the Civilopedia stating that the Persian Immortal is to move 2 hexes.
In my current game, it moves 2 hexes and still attacks me.

Bug of the Civilopedia or bug of the unit?

Attached savefile plays on a huge map with standard number of civs and CS. So, it may not run well on each computer (although being in turn 87).

It would be so easy to find the right autosave if it wouldn't take ages to load.

How to reproduc:

• Bombard the Pasargadae with the archer right of it.
• Take the city with the adjacent horseman (horseman 1) and make a puppet state.
• Capture Persian settler with the horseman (horseman 2) right of the immortal (lower edge of the screen).
• Kill Persian General with the scout.
• Move crossbow to the north
• Move archer SE (3) of Pelzbach to (4)
• Move archer (!!) NW of horseman 2 SW (1) upon the connecting toad between Persepolis and Pasergadae.
• Let the warrior next to the Barb village wait. Promote the archer with whatever you want.
  
• Let the next turn start:

the immortal which has been adjacent to horseman 2 at the beginning now attacks the archer (!!) after having moved 2 hexes already.

 

[Mathias]

Persia's bonus includes +1 movement for all units during golden age.

 

[Petek]

Not a bug. Thanks to Mathias for pointing out the GA bonus. The attached thumbnail shows that the Persian Immortal is getting a 10% GA bonus and has 3 MPs.

@lschnarch - We still appreciate your bringing this up. I certainly learned something about the game from looking at the save file.

 

[lschnarch]

Ok... I really wasn't aware of the Persian golden age. Sorry.

 

[Petek]

No problem. I didn't know about this either.

 

[AttilaTheHun]

I noticed a Persian longswordsman that has a movement of 3. The Persians also had a pikeman with 3 moves. Given the promotions the unit has, this should be impossible.

I suspect that the Persians have built the Great Lighthouse and these units arrived by sea to attack Brussels from behind and retained the +1 move on land.

The way I noticed is because the longswordsman took out my horseman 3 hexes west of it on the previous turn. I reloaded a save to see how he managed that by moving another horseman to see what was going on.

Moderator Action: Threads merged.

 

[Tatran]

Persia is in a Golden Age, all their units will get +1 movement bonus. No bug.

 

[AttilaTheHun]

Ah, thank you and sorry for the post.