Cities, Sieges, and bombard

[roman2440]

Hello, I'm new to FoF and loving it.

However I've come across a particularly annoying bug. Playing as the north coming down the Mississippi river, using gunboats, I decided to use the bombard strategy to defeating forts. I happened to also use it to take out the garrisons in the cities, that is until I found the bug. I found that it actually destroyed the city! Both Mephis and Natchez disappeared after I won the siege. The report said the siege was successful and I captured the city, but the graphic for the city disappeared from the map and when you right click on the river province it was in, it is no longer listed there.

I believe this bug also led to my eventual defeat because I think it kept me from getting the anaconda VPs. at the end of the game I was only getting 6 VP for blockades, is that correct? I had all of the ports blockaded with at least 3 ships and all of the MS river provinces in my control.

I've got the save file at Home (I'm at work right now).

[DD696]

Save that savefile! They are looking for a save to find out why cities are disappearing at times. They have on me a couple times but I did not use bombard. I tend to always encircle. In my case the city had changed hands several times until it just decided to pack up and go away to the twilight zone.