Galleys in oceans?

[Yaga]

Looking for some help here -- when can galleys enter ocean squares? According to the manual the answer would seem to be "never", however I've seen the AI do it on a couple of occasions...

(Attached screenshot has mouseover information of Bismark's galleys)

[SCarton]

That doesn't seem to make sense. The water is a lighter color of blue there, so it doesn't seem like it should be an ocean square. I'm thinking that the galley is fine and the tile's description is wrong.

[Addled Platypus]

did BismarK's galley make an immeediate right, heading back to the coast ?

just the AI trying to squeeze in a extra trick or two

[Fried-Psitalon]

Any owned/teammate's ship can enter any water that is within your/teammate's cultural boundaries, ocean or coast.

[ghen]

I wish we had kamakaze galleys back :\ ones that would sink randomly every 1 in 10 turns on the ocean..

[Diadem]

Galleys can enter any square within your cultural borders. Even if they are ocean squares. You can sometimes use that to get to places you can't normally go, in fact.

When you have open borders, your galleys can do the same in your friend's cultural borders.

[Jinx1337]

No!

I hated that

[vee4473]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon
Any owned/teammate's ship can enter any water that is within your/teammate's cultural boundaries, ocean or coast.

now THAT"S a heck of a statement. I did not know that.

[Enigma_Nova]

It's useful for island hopping, if you gift all your rubbish cities to the nearest friendly creative civ.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by ghen
I wish we had kamakaze galleys back :\ ones that would sink randomly every 1 in 10 turns on the ocean..

Kamakaze galleys are fun

[pauli]

god bless the suicide galley.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Fried-Psitalon
Any owned/teammate's ship can enter any water that is within your/teammate's cultural boundaries, ocean or coast.

Didn't know that

Originally posted by ghen
I wish we had kamakaze galleys back :\ ones that would sink randomly every 1 in 10 turns on the ocean..

Now that was fun

Once I managed to get my galley to last 15-20 turns in the ocean

[Krill]

Suicide galleys were just another way for the human to exploit the AI, as the AI could never understand the point of sending the galley into the ocean to find other civs or landmasses.

This way the game has one less exploit, making it more balanced.

to Suicide galleys

[Enigma_Nova]

Suicide Galleys? Man, those things were annoying. Less random chance thx!

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Krill
Suicide galleys were just another way for the human to exploit the AI

Who cares? (I don't). First of all, it was fun. Then, it wasn't an instantaneously gained advantage, or one received for free; you had to sacrifice lots of shields to gain something. Sometimes it was the only chance to remain in the game, especially on archipelago maps.

"One doesn't discover new land without losing sight of the shore"

to Suicide galleys