Victory point locations - where to fortify unit?

[Fistleaf]

Does it matter if I fortify a military unit on any adjacent square next to the victory point? Or does it work only on the left square?

[Antrine]

Or is it last one to occupy it? If not I suspect you must be dead on it. Do the points show up in the victory screen?

[WarpStorm]

You have to be on the tile with the marker. With the new artwork this is the one that in a little to the left. (I liked the old artwork better, because it was centered).

[Cerbykins]

Not only that, I don't think even a city is even on it. MUST be a unit :/

[Fried-Psitalon]

Specifically a military one - not settler, worker, explorer, etc.

[MrWhereItsAt]

If you are a little confused then you can right-click the tile to check out it's type and food/shields/trade output. The marker is there in the pictorial of the tile, but not in the surrounding tiles.

Just started my first Conquest, which is how I figured that out.

[Last Conformist]

I wonder how many turns I lost in the Pacific Conquest by not realizing at first that having the VPL within my cultural radius was not enough.

[Dis]

I do believe a city can be on it- just make sure a military unit is within the city- which it should be unless you like losing cities

This is evident in the WW2 pacific game where many cities are placed right on the VP locations. Sometimes the cities get destroyed, but you should keep the unit there anyways.

[Cerbykins]

Dunno, I seem to be having more success lately NOT defending most of my main cities, and just leave a few units in the general area. But granted, if there's contention - and on a VP location, there almost certainly IS - then a mil unit (or several!) is a must.

[Dis]

well in WW2 pacific I'm sure you could get away with leaving the mainland cities of Japan and the U.S. vacant- at least against the ai. But as I said, I'm not sure if you accumulate vp's that way.

But seeing as the AI always goes for your weakest cities, I wouldn't advise that either. I'm sure they could manage to sneak a transport around somehow.

[Cerbykins]

As Axis, I ended up playing the island hop game...
Of course, that assumes everything behind you is safe
Maybe not wise on higher levels

[Last Conformist]

There's no such thing as "safe" - only different levels of risk!

[MotownDennis]

You MUST have a unit on the VP location. An empty city on the VP location does NOT give victory points.

[Jon Shafer]

Reminds me of a Napoleonic Europe game I played during the beta.

I was Austria, allied with Prussia. We were both fighting against France, and (bastard) France managed to raze one of my cities with a VP location (Budapest I think?). Prussia then promptly put a unit and fortified it on the ruins of my city, and there was no way I could get rid of it!