Settler on a ship....

[jb1964]

I believe I'm in ths midst of my first ever conquest victory where I'll have to track down a sttler at sea to win.

What a total pain in the butt.

Bah!

 

[subbss]

That can be aggrevating if there is a lot of water but I have used that same tactic myself of putting a settler on a ship and drive it around in circles forever so my civ can't die or find an unexplored one tile island to settle on as my new secret capital my enmy doesn't know about. What age are you in? What techs do you have? Are you searching for the settler ship in Galleon type ancient ships or Destroyer and Battleships and stuff? How many ships do you have right now?

 

[dgfred]

I believe I'm in ths midst of my first ever conquest victory where I'll have to track down a sttler at sea to win.

What a total pain in the butt.

Bah!

In my current emperor game as Celts the Romans I fear have done the same
thing - they are down to 3 cities and the entire game everytime they
see one of my ships they have gone after them- Now, this one galleon came
near one of mine and instantly turned around ( I wonder why ) I was going to let them survive with one city anyway .

 

[ybbor]

one trivk i did... givive them a city you don't want, plant a spy, use the spy to steal troop plans, declare war, take back the city hubnt down the ship

 

[Mr. Do]

Sounds like the name of a song.....

 

[El Loco]

curiously, that has never happened to me

 

[Tomoyo]

one trivk i did... givive them a city you don't want, plant a spy, use the spy to steal troop plans, declare war, take back the city hubnt down the ship

...or nuke the ship.

 

[Yuri2356]

Now, this is why I always set up Naval Blockades before, during, and after wars. I'll build a line of ships (Normaly cruisers, later reinforced with battleships) that is just tight enough so that there is a continuous line of sight from Pole to Pole. Something like this:
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I'll normaly place one on both sides of my continent as an early warning system. If I ever need to find that one last settler ship, I can just move the line Across the globe, sweeping the Sea for any signs of it.

 

[citizen001]

Why do you have to get the settler to win, don't you win when you've destroyed the other civ's cities?

 

[Yuri2356]

Nope. As long as they have a settler there is a chance that they can rebuild their empire, so you have to kill all cities and settlers. Besides, if it were progammed that way, there would probably be a bug that makes you loose if you wait too long to build your first city.

 

[citizen001]

Nope. As long as they have a settler there is a chance that they can rebuild their empire, so you have to kill all cities and settlers. Besides, if it were progammed that way, there would probably be a bug that makes you loose if you wait too long to build your first city.

Oh yea, that's right. Then it would be annoying trying to track a settler in some faraway place when you've decimated their empire completely

 

[LLXerxes]

That's why you invade them early when they send out their first galley
Happened to me. I destroyed Lizzy's last city, yet their still alive. ThenI see her running away with a settler in a galley.
Then I destroyed the galley

 

[Nicci]

the most simple solution is to leave some ground for him to built his city. let him built it and destroy it.

 

[crimson238]

the most simple solution is to leave some ground for him to built his city. let him built it and destroy it.

True, but it's not as much fun as playing transport hide and go seek.

 

[Theoden]

I once had a city flip to civ that had nothing but a settler on a boat left. I took the city back right after off course, but they still had the settler left.

 

[Spelling Police]

I remember playing one game where the Russians (who I was "sort of" allies with ) were fighting against the very powerful Greeks... eventually, they were reduced to a settler in a caravel. They circled the continent several times before I accidentally gave them a spot to land -- of course, their city was promptly trounced by Greek infantry. How sad. :shakehead

I guess the moral of the story is that it's easier to evade enemy ships with a settler than to put off the inevitable destruction of your tiny little final city.

 

[Jake5555555]

Once one of my enemies escaped like this while I was mobilized for war. They would never accept peace, so I was stuck in mobolization for many turns.