Strategy (or lack of it) by the (Spanish) AI.
When a settler "vanishes", send another one to find it! (Repeat five more times)
(There is another captured settler in the mist! And the two English workers are re-captured captured Spanish settlers.)
[This is certainly a flaw in the "escort" logic of sending only one unit (a ship) to protect settlers.]
This is... odd. In my experience the AI has always sent a land unit, embarked.
Oh well, free workers for you!
Except this island is almost the antipodes of my capital ... so I just deleted them after capture!Originally Posted by Magic_Hotdog
Return them to Spain? So Isabella can build another 7 cities? I think not!
You could have built Gloucester there, in tribute
Your matching icons made this thread rough to read.
I don't know the significance of Gloucester, but if you meant build a city that isn't possible. If you capture someone else's settler it becomes a worker. Not a very useful unit to have half a world away.
It's both a city and a type of cheese, but it's also (one of) the references in the subject - Cheese Rolling
Yeah, sorry about that.Your matching icons made this thread rough to read.
As whoward69 says, the title of the thread refers to an annual cheese-rolling event that takes place near the city of Gloucester, where a round piece of Double Gloucester cheese is rolled down a hill and the "competitors" run down the hill after it. If you think that sounds weird then you'd be right.I don't know the significance of Gloucester,
That was rather silly of me - I forgot they turned into workers.but if you meant build a city that isn't possible. If you capture someone else's settler it becomes a worker. Not a very useful unit to have half a world away.
Last edited by craig123; 01-12-2012 at 08:45 AM.
If that archer isn't already at max barb promotions, I'd shoot at them first until he is, before capturing and destroying them.
Still a bit stupid of the AI though. I understand them wanting to build a city there, for whatever reason, but you'd think they'd get the message that it's too dangerous without defence and stop doing it.
oddly, I had one case when I was playing as Washington where the captured settler stayed a settler.
Happened the entire game. (no mods)
very strange. (if it's a bug, it was a nice surprise bug)
I've occasionally had this happen when using a scout to clear a camp (after an archer has killed the barb warrior) in strategic view - it's nice when it happens (and would have been very useful in this case)
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