How to get horses

[Dradiuz]

I'm new to this game and i see i need horses to create some units. I have some on the map but how do i get them

[ballomatic]

Field with horse must "belong" to your city, and you must build improvement on it

[D3bs]

They need to be within your city borders, research animal husbandry (which you have done as you can see the horses) then improve the tile with a worker.

[Dradiuz]

So i have to buy all hexagons that lead to the horse, and then build something on it ?

[Millstone85]

Originally posted by Dradiuz:

So i have to buy all hexagons that lead to the horse, and then build something on it ?

That makes it sound like the horses are more than three hexes away from your city. If so, I think the game won't let you buy them.

[Dradiuz]

Yes they are 5 hexes away

[Mr. Monday]

Originally posted by Dradiuz:

Yes they are 5 hexes away

Then you'll either have to wait for your closest city's borders to expand out to them, or make a settler and build a new city near them.

[Damsteri]

5 tiles away is too far. You can buy tiles only from three closest rings, but city will eventually grow to fourth and fifth rings (if you have high culture output on that city), but that takes time. You won't get those horses until at modern times earliest, at the time when you don't have any use for them anyway.

So, time to train a new settler or forget horses and plan your strategy without them.... or you can trade some horses from AI or get them from city state allies.

[Dradiuz]

OK thanks. I just traded some horses for money

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Horses 5 hexes away could be used, but it's quite a long way, a couple of eras?, to wait for the related city to expend that far naturally, and you can't force it further than 3 hexes. Actually I believe 5 hexes is the limit for a city expansion, or maybe 6...
I don't use horses much, beside trading.
Yep, build another city if there are luxuries or ressources around those horses.

[T0uCHMaC0c]

Get your worker to go to the tile where the horses are then you click "build stable"

[Kro]

Sneak behind them , when u r close enough jump on their back and ride em home ya !

[¤ βℓооđч ¤ Nico-Kun!]

Originally posted by Dradiuz:

OK thanks. I just traded some horses for money

Keep in mind that you don't get to keep those horses; the deal only lasts for 25 turns, after which you'll either have to renew it, or drop it (losing the horses in that case).

Also, when building units that require a resource, the resource is in use, but you recover it if the unit dies or is upgraded and no longer requires the resource.