"unhunting" troops

If you successfully occupy an oasis that someone else's troops are currently hunting, do those troops return to that person's city? If so, that seems to be a legit strategy to use on enemies within a reasonable cat trip from your city.

It would also make hunting in level 9 oases that much riskier.

Dont worry they dont get your troops-they return to your city

Right, but troops sitting in your city for while you work for 8-10 hours is pretty risky. I'm thinking of using this as a strategy more than worrying about it happening to me, but it's something to consider both ways.

No the only way to get someone's troops to come home from hunting is by cropping and starving them, and even that only works if their crop output is negative and they don't get online before the troops starve. I've never heard of someones troops returning to their city from a hunt unless they harvest the hunt, the troops starve, or the hunt has reached its 10 day limit.

On s7 a long time ago there was rumors that if you took an oasis with more troops of every unit than were hunting in there the hunting troops returned to main city. I tried it and his troops were put into main city, updates may have fixed this tho

Yeah it used to do that, not anymore though

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