Embarkless

[jshelr]

I expect there is a simple answer to my confusion. As Liz, I was alone on a small island and beelined for optics after getting stonehenge and the GL. However, my warriors can't embark to get to the ancient ruins we've found with T-boats at isolated spots around the map. Is there another tech I need to embark or are warriors too stupid (or does the stupidity lie with the fearless leader)?

[rah]

Fearless leader stupidity of course.

Naw, it's a dumb feature. Only units created after you get the tech get the embark promotion. Older units don't get it given to them.

[Dauphin]

They do if they return to one of your cities.

[jshelr]

tks guys. we will go back to London, see a couple of shows, and then go to sea

[MxM]

They do if they return to one of your cities.

Really? I could swear it is not true, that you have to build a new ones. But now I have doubts...

[rah]

They do if they return to one of your cities.

Hmm I had a scout stationed in one of my cities and he didn't get it. I'll have to check that again. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. (it wouldn't be the first time)

[iamakka]

The text in game says it should get the promotion if it moves 'back into friendly territory' - so if it is inside your borders with no embark, try stepping it out and then back in?

[alva]

What iamakka said.
As soon as they enter friendly territory ( not sure if it works with a friendly cs state, does with a allied) they get the promotion.

Took me awhile to figure out too btw...

[clarkcd]

I had this happen to me as well. I had a unit stationed inside my borders who didn't get it but once I moved him he got the promotion. He never left my borders, just moved within them. Apparently movement is the trigger for the upgrade.

[rah]

I had this happen to me as well. I had a unit stationed inside my borders who didn't get it but once I moved him he got the promotion. He never left my borders, just moved within them. Apparently movement is the trigger for the upgrade.

AH, that would explain it. I had a scout in a city and was waiting for the tech, but when I checked him after I got it I still couldn't embark him straight to sea, so I disbanded him and built a new one.

[jshelr]

Anyway, we finally embarked, and we got a crudely drawn map of the area. Worth every effort

[weregamer1]

This is actually one of the few interface bobbles that's actually documented on-screen. The tech tree box for the tech, with the "star" icon for the new ability, has mouseover text that says "existing units within your territory".

Also, if you have a unit far away from home, "embark" becomes an available promotion when it levels up. I have a hard time imagining this would be worth forever gimping the unit's promotion track, but it's there.

[Adagio]

Hmm I had a scout stationed in one of my cities and he didn't get it. I'll have to check that again. Maybe I wasn't paying attention. (it wouldn't be the first time)

I thought it was just scouts that couldn't embark. In a game I had both a scout and a warrior standing in one place just waiting for embarking. As soon as I got the invention the warrior could embark without moving, but the scout couldn't. I believe I also moved the scout around, but that was in one of my first games. Since then I haven't built any scouts as when they can't embark, they are very useless on island games
But I'll try again

[Ming]

Scouts can embark.

[jnh140]

I was suprised by this too. I began working on embarkation technology, headed west so that my armies could hop the narrow inlet and take a bombard position south of a target. They wouldn't get in the water, so I had to walk them alll the way back to town, then suddenly they could hop in the water.

I'm thinking you have the option to put them in an allied CS territory as well, but im not sure of this; I observed a lot of wonkyness with this feature.