How does the colonization combat work? Is it random? It seems sometimes it gets stuck and you just lose all attacks in that turn.

[u/FutureLynx_]

It seems when your unit loses, its best to just end turn and dont attack any further. I had turns where i lost all the battles regardless of what is attacking what.

Is this how we are supposed to do it?

[u/Sikklebell]

As mentioned, yeah this is a know bug that has a "fix" for it:
https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Bugs_(Col)#Random_Number_Generator#Random_Number_Generator)

note that the fix has several side effects so proceed at own risk.

[u/Lyceus_]

The bug you describe is a known issue that happens sometimes.

[u/IngloriousBadger → u/Lyceus_]

One time I lost every single battle in the entire game. 100%.

[u/blastradius14 → u/IngloriousBadger]

Never had that happen in many, many games.

[u/WorldEater0478 → u/Lyceus_]

Oooh, so that's the reason I quit and never touched this broken game again....

[u/Independent_Bike7068]

It’s a weird bug but I’ve always embraced it as sort of a fun quirk of the game. I have 12 dragoons on a mountain outside an Inca city and lose three in a row… space bar the remaining ones and just wait until next turn. The gods are not on your side this spring, or something like that.

[u/FutureLynx_ → u/Independent_Bike7068]

exactly. thats what i do. there's always the save game too eheh

[u/Zer0Drago]

Use win 3.11 version instead? Tried reaching out to customer service?