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Moving your army...
Your army is trapped inside a city!


Its also got a button to prepare an attack, so I guess that tactic of trapping is pretty useless now then.

Unless I'm making a mistake... but last era I'm 99.999% sure it wasn't like that. Hence the bug post by that nub I plundered.

Dont get what your saying... You've always been able to trap armies in cities if you close the gates after theyve set a course there. And you could always attack the city to get out. And it isnt useless.

If thats not the answer then rephrase the question =/...

You can attack the city with the trapped army... Always been that way otherwise it would be to abuseable...

Please stop posting people. That button to start preparing on a city if you're trapped inside wasn't always there, actually it's quite new. So yes you could trap an army in the walls and it couldn't get out except by merging out or getting teleported.

That said... the button isn't new either it's been there for eras. The tactic as Wilber explains it isn't really a tactic as much as it's an exploit of the game code, you shouldn't be able to trap an army without attacking it.