Strange battle animations . . .

[comatosedragon]

I've actualy lived with this because it does not affect gameplay, but when I have a SOD trying to capture a city and one of thier deffenders kills my attacker, I get this animation of like a large wooden tower crashing . . .
It does not happen with individual units, only when I use a large stack. Anyone know what this is?

 

[ori]

its a new animation - for attacks on cities with walls

 

[kudicious]

I've actualy lived with this because it does not affect gameplay, but when I have a SOD trying to capture a city and one of thier deffenders kills my attacker, I get this animation of like a large wooden tower crashing . . .
It does not happen with individual units, only when I use a large stack. Anyone know what this is?

I saw that strange battle too but cannot understood exactly when it happens

 

[Clam Spammer]

What you are seeing there is a siege tower. These were sometimes used by ancient and medieval armies to scale city walls. I have seen them in the Total War series but I had no idea they were in Civ too (I don't use stack attack).

 

[comatosedragon]

What you are seeing there is a siege tower. These were sometimes used by ancient and medieval armies to scale city walls. I have seen them in the Total War series but I had no idea they were in Civ too (I don't use stack attack).

That's kind of what I thought, but it's not anything I have to build, they just show up. I guess I'll have to expirement a bit and see if it only shows up when the city has walls.

 

[Clam Spammer]

Siege towers were usually built on site from materials available near the city, rather than being constructed in a home city and moved all the way to the target. It wouldn't make sense to build them in the same way as you build other units.