This worked

[dalgo]

In my current game the two tech leaders are Babylon and the Iroquois and I wanted them at war with each other so they couldn’t trade techs. I had nothing to offer them but I noticed the Iroquois had an MPP with Byzantine, who had no iron. So I declared war on Babylon and allied with the Byzantines for my spare iron. However they were on opposite sides of a huge continents map so weren’t likely to get together any time soon. I attacked and captured a nearby Babylon city, making sure I had enough movement points to take my units clear of the city. Then I sold the buildings and gifted the city to Byzantine.

Next turn Babylon recaptured their city and the Iroquois declared war on them.

This is one of the reasons I enjoy Civ3 so much. There are often different ways to achieve an objective and in this case a new tactic to try. I'm sure it is a familiar tactic for experienced players but I got a kick out of seeing it work for the first time.

Footnote: The reason I moved my units out of the city was because I wasn't sure what would happen to them when I gifted the city away. Would they have been OK?

 

[Bartleby]

Footnote: The reason I moved my units out of the city was because I wasn't sure what would happen to them when I gifted the city away. Would they have been OK?

They'd have been teleported to your capital.

 

[Snarkhunter]

They'd have been teleported to your capital.

Which is a tactic I've resorted to occasionally to move units quickly across the map.

kk

 

[vmxa]

If you wanted to keep the town, you could have gotten the DOW by moving a weak unit near Babs, but in your land. A worker is good for it. Babs attacks the unit and you get the war. Just be sure the unit is in not in their lands. They are allowed to attack units in their land and not trigger the MPP.

 

[dalgo]

If you wanted to keep the town, you could have gotten the DOW by moving a weak unit near Babs, but in your land. A worker is good for it. Babs attacks the unit and you get the war. Just be sure the unit is in not in their lands. They are allowed to attack units in their land and not trigger the MPP.

In this case I was making use of an MPP between two AI civs, not my own MPP.

They'd have been teleported to your capital.

That's good to know, but what about ships? (my capital is inland).

 

[Bartleby]

That's good to know, but what about ships? (my capital is inland).

I don't know, but I'd be interested to find out. I did once abandon a coastal city without noticing it was full of transports, and they were lost.

 

[I. Larkin]

If you abandon a coastal city with ships inside they will be lost. But if you gift city then ships also will be teleported to capital, even inland. They stuck there.

 

[Optional]

Hardly relevant, but I do remember once somebody posting a coastal tile having turned to land due to global warming, causing a ship on that tile to get stuck.

So that's at least two ways to get your ships grounded in the game!

 

[Lanzelot]

Hardly relevant, but I do remember once somebody posting a coastal tile having turned to land due to global warming, causing a ship on that tile to get stuck.

Yes, Moonsinger posted some screenshots like that a couple years ago. She called it "Terraforming by nuking"... Interestingly, the Fish resource on that tile was still there, so she was then able to irrigate and railroad the Fish for a total of 6 food...

But that was in Vanilla. I think it's no longer possible in PTW and C3C.

 

[Nergal]

I just love the concept of railroading a fish ..

 

[Snarkhunter]

I just love the concept of railroading a fish ..

Irrigating it might be more useful, to the fish

kk