Am I missing something, or is it an unintended feature?

This seems like an oversight to me, does it say the same if you try to land on the district next to it with the land units?

Scapeh wrote:

This seems like an oversight to me, does it say the same if you try to land on the district next to it with the land units?

It was the same for other district tiles.

I ran into the same issue. I tried bombarding the fortifications down but it didn't help.

If I had to make a guess you most likely need an actual boat and not a land unit on a transport ship.

kryton24 wrote:

If I had to make a guess you most likely need an actual boat and not a land unit on a transport ship.

If you try with a sea unit it tells you sea units cannot besiege cities.

Currently, nuking the city seems to be the only option to attack the island.

Lol well hopefully this is perhaps a glitch or something because nuking islands doesn't sound like an ideal long term strategy.

This is actually also a thing in Endless legend where if you have a city on an island built up so that all coastal adjacent tiles were covered by districts you could effectively make an unconquerable city (if ice sheets didn't get added in a winter).

I'm running into this too and it's so infuriating, there's literally a single island city between me and winning an elimination victory

Welcome to the club i reported that as a bug the release day

Fixing this issue is more difficult than I first thought.

There are some underlying issues here:

・Land units cannot attack directly from sea, they have to disembark first

・There is no spawn point for the invading army during battlefield deployment, since sea tiles are not counted as a valid tile for unit deployment

So the solution could be like:

-> Amphibious attacks should be permitted, but with a heavy penalty

-> The game should permit spawn points at sea, if you attack a land tile from sea

This solution should circumvent the issue that the game has no logic to determine whether if an empty tile for attacking a city exists or not.

Either way, this is more of a design error than a bug, and might take time to fix.

I'll stick to nuking the island out of existence for the time being.

kuwaken wrote:

Fixing this issue is more difficult than I first thought.

There are some underlying issues here:

・Land units cannot attack directly from sea, they have to disembark first

・There is no spawn point for the invading army during battlefield deployment, since sea tiles are not counted as a valid tile for unit deployment

So the solution could be like:

-> Amphibious attacks should be permitted, but with a heavy penalty

-> The game should permit spawn points at sea, if you attack a land tile from sea

This solution should circumvent the issue that the game has no logic to determine whether if an empty tile for attacking a city exists or not.

Either way, this is more of a design error than a bug, and might take time to fix.

I'll stick to nuking the island out of existence for the time being.

I think, that the solution is to allow amphibious to attack the city with big penalty, otherwise island cities are OP, especially in multiplayer games

District bombardment does not work either.

I am still unable to land on the ruin tile after bombardment.

Hi all! It is my first post ;) I’m writing the guide for this game and I think that I found a solution to conquer such places... but no to invade such isolated place using your land troops. @kuwaken you were close to my idea :P 

You need to destroy the Main Plaza/Outpost/Administrative Center. When destroyed, the territory will become neutral. Now, your forces can move on the island and set up an outpost.

Not only nuclear attack can destroy districts, but land bombardment (if in range), naval bombardment, cruise missile or air bombings. Also ransack co do it, but not in that case.

kuwaken wrote:

District bombardment does not work either.

I am still unable to land on the ruin tile after bombardment.

Someone wants oil. xD

Yes as Haako said, destroying the main plaza through ranged combat is the way to go.

Veeeery annoying issue. Has this been formally reported as a bug or is this thread enough ?

Issue is resolved with the new beta patch!

oooo how so? what changes were made to addres this?