Gifting units - a pain

[mrmike_49]

Why is Gifting units to city-states so touchy with the mouse controls? After I select the "Gift unit" option, I have to move the gift icon mouse cursor over the unit, then press and HOLD the mouse button for about 3 seconds, otherwise it doesn't work. wtf??

A side issue, why can't I gift an air unit?? (helicopter doesn't count)

Also, went for wipeout victory yesterday, but it surprised me when game over after I captured last AI's capital, even though it still had another 3 or 4 cities

[RalphRoberts]

Domination is for holding all the Capital cities.

[mrmike_49]

Originally posted by RalphRoberts:

Domination is for holding all the Capital cities.

So I could have won by just capturing all the capitals?? Could have done that a hundred turns earlier!!

[RalphRoberts]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

Originally posted by RalphRoberts:

Domination is for holding all the Capital cities.

So I could have won by just capturing all the capitals?? Could have done that a hundred turns earlier!!

:)

[friend robocat]

yeah its terrible suff you can't gift air units. Pretty annoying when you gift a fully loaded carrier to some citystate or ally and then it loses all its precious cargo.

[Libertarian46]

Even after reading your explanation, I still cannot gift a unit. It gives me the "gift" icon, I find the unit I want to give, but nothing I do seems to work. I have tried left clicks, right clicks, clicking on the actual unit, clicking on the icon above the unit, holding the mouse button down for 3 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, etc. and nothing seems to work. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[KhanIndustries]

Originally posted by Libertarian46:

Even after reading your explanation, I still cannot gift a unit. It gives me the "gift" icon, I find the unit I want to give, but nothing I do seems to work. I have tried left clicks, right clicks, clicking on the actual unit, clicking on the icon above the unit, holding the mouse button down for 3 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, etc. and nothing seems to work. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

I can't remember if it was different in vanilla (I don't think so) but basically I just talk to the city state > give gift > gift a unit > click a unit to give them (legit units will have their hexes highlighted)

There are a few exceptions. Some units you can't gift like scouts and workers.

Also note that if your unit is stacked with a worker, actually stacked with anything, it won't take. You need to move the unit off the worker/city/great person/etc.. and then gift it.

It also takes three turns to arrive unless you manually walked the unit to their territory


*edit*
Sorry didn't realize necro'd until just now

[hopsblues]

I have this problem as well. I can only gift a unit by walking it to the cs. The gift unit featurte has never worked for me.