intercontinental attack

[Vince278]

Originally posted by vmxa1
If you use the flip calculator you can see that there some value to having more than 3 units in a captured city.

In fact you may need quite a few for quite a number of turns.

There is some value just after the city is taken. I always have a number of units in the city equal to the number of resisters plus 1 or 2 (or greater). After the resistance ends (in a turn or two) I only station two defensive units inside. I haven't seen anything flip so far this year, I usually have the highest total culture in a game and when I'm on an offensive the frontlines are moving forward fairly quick.

[bongo]

Mariola , sounds like you got the basics there

Your 'killing field' strategy has worked very well for me in every civ-game I've seen so far. In fact, this strategy alone is often enough to win most games. Just find a nice defensive position where the AI just *have* to attack you and bleed him white.

A few minor suggestion for your next invasion:

-You might want to bring a second worker to build a radar tower(if you got the tech)

-Learn the basics of flipping, enough units will completely prevent a flip(we're talking 2-3 units per citizen or more), starve it down to size one ASAP. Also, I don't think the city will ever flip on the first turn.

-what roads did you destroy btw, those directly next to your city or those one tile out?


I think I will duplicate your attack in my current game btw. I'm playing a somehow relaxed game this time(no aggressive oscillating wars so far) and the Iroquis is getting big and greedy. Time for a trimming

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by Vince278

I only station two defensive units inside. I haven't seen anything flip so far this year, I usually have the highest total culture in a game and when I'm on an offensive the frontlines are moving forward fairly quick.

Not sure if you've seen the flip calculator that vmxa1 refers to, but if you haven't you should

The number of resisting and non-resisting foreigners in the captured city is clearly a factor in determining the flip chance, but you should get those under control fairly soon with your garrison and through starvation.

Howver, one important factor that will take longer for you to resolve is the number of city tiles under AI influence. If you've just taken the city, you will only have 9 city tiles, and chances are there are several of the 21 tiles radius that are inside AI territory. Until you've built a Temple/Library + 4/5 turns for the culture expansion (hopefully!), this will probably be your biggest flip risk factor!

Please, look at the flip calculator. You will be very surprised. Based on my experience, you will almost certainly be taking a significant risk by stationinig only 2 units inside a captured city on a frontline.

[vmxa1]

Here it is:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=53157

[Vince278]

Temples are almost always my first build choice in a conquered city. Colesseums usually follow. Thats for unrest management as well as culture.