Quick question: gunboat diplomacy.

[Tech Osen]

Just wondering if someone already tried this out. I had an issue last night where I liberated two city states and both times they enforced borders right away (even though I became suzerain), pushed out my (low health) units into enemy territory and I lost a few units that way. This did not happen when I liberated cities from an ally.
Now I more often than not have gunboat diplomacy fitted but not this time. Does fitting it prevent the push?

 

[AriochIV]

I haven't tried it specifically, but I doubt it. In my experience, the game always expels your units from a liberated city-state even though liberating it automatically makes you suzerain.

 

[Trav'ling Canuck]

Yeah, I'd be surprised if a policy card would change anything. I assume this is just poor sequencing in the code, where either the "you're now suzerain" effect is applied after the unit ejection, or the unit ejection doesn't have a check for "are you suzerain?".

 

[Tech Osen]

I'll try it out next time I liberate a CS then.

Would be nice if there was at least some logic to where the units land and not precisely in the middle of an enemy encampment and a city center.

 

[AriochIV]

No good deed goes unpunished.