Too Darned Weird To Comprehend
Umm...this is way too weird and I was wondering if anyone has ever seen it before. I'm playing my third campaign with the 1.2 patch, this time as the Greek Cities. I press "End Turn" in the winter of 248 BC and the Brutii settlement of Segestica -- which they had left ungarrisoned -- automatically gets transferred to my faction, as if the Greek inhabitants have thrown a rebellion without any encouragement from myself. No bribing or anything -- in fact, I haven't even sent a boat, a diplomat or a spy to that region of the map.
Not only do I inherit this free settlement, but it also comes stock with its own small army -- specifically six full militia hoplite platoons and six full peasant platoons, all with an Experience of 3, Gold Shield Armor Upgrades, and Silver weapons upgrades; I'm not even able to provide these same upgrades to new units at my other settlements at this point in the game.
I have gone back a few turns to make sure I didn't inadvertantly accept a proferred territory in exchange for trade rights or something ridiculous like that, and nothing like that has apparently happened. Yet it consistently gives me Segestica on the same year.
Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is simply too weird. Does anyone know what's going on here?
Re: Too Darned Weird To Comprehend
I think I may. It seems that each settlement has a 'founder' line in the descr_strat file. It might have something to do with that, though it's only a hunch. Perhaps you want to see if Segestica's founder is the Greek Cities. If it is, then it probably means there's a time trigger built in somewhere into the game where an ungarrisoned settlement owned by someone else will revert to the founder at a certain date. Sort of like Macedonia founding Cyrene. If it has nothing to do with that, then I can't help you. Meanwhile, enjoy your new units, with their nice upgrades they will be very useful for you.