War weariness decay?

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by DaveV

No, it's much worse than that. If you're fighting inside an enemy's cultural borders, they get absolutely no war weariness, no matter how many units you kill or cities you take. Meanwhile, your war weariness mounts. Best answer is to kill off the target, then your war weariness magically drops to zero (and you don't have to deal with population yearning for its homeland, or leftover culture).

What if you build the Statue of Zeus? Will this force any WW on them when fighting in their territory?

[DaveV]

I don't know for sure, but I'm betting that twice zero is still zero (i.e., it won't affect them inside their territory).

[rah]

With BTS, I'm now a bit torn.
In the old days, I'd declare war and take our their assault stack in my territory to avoid the WW.
Now I find myself wanting to take out as many cities as I can on the first move before the cities whip the extra defenders. The AI was not good at that in previous versions.
So now it depends on the circumstances.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by rah
With BTS, I'm now a bit torn.
In the old days, I'd declare war and take our their assault stack in my territory to avoid the WW.
Now I find myself wanting to take out as many cities as I can on the first move before the cities whip the extra defenders. The AI was not good at that in previous versions.
So now it depends on the circumstances.

If you're lucky enough to build the GW and maybe be an Imp leader it does pay to fight in your borders, at least initially.

[rah]

But you can't wait too long or else the AI whips every city down (or drafts) that theres not a lot left in terms of pop so it's harder for you to whip the basic infrastructure. I try to do my wars a lot quicker now as a result.