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  • #1

    Shrinking Cities

    Stumbled on something infuriating last night. The guy I was playing with said he'd seen it happen before, but I hadn't.

    I attacked the Japanese capital. It was size 5. As each defender fell, the city decreased one number in size. Stupidly - well, not paying close enough attention, because I was having a ball crunching the place - when I wiped out the last defender, the city disappeared completely.

    I realise conquering a size 1 city causes its disappearance (except when Barbs attack and take your size 1 cities, as they sometimes choose to), but I've never come across that sort of shrinkage before.

    When I took their next city (size 4 prior to attack), things progressed as per usual - knock out the defenders, city dropped in size, and I occupied it.

    Talk about curse out loud!

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    Walls
    The only thing that matters to me in a MP game is getting a good ally.Nothing else is as important.......Xin Yu

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    • #3
      What about 'em? The Japanese capital didn't have a wall. Or is that the point? I'm confused. And possibly stupid.

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      finbar
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      " ... and the following morning I should see the Boks wallop the Wallabies again?" - Havak
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      • #4
        When you reduce a city to size one, halt your attack until the next turn. It will almost always grow by one the following turn and be empty. Then you can take it and keep it the next turn.

        If it so happens that it grows to size two and there is one defender in it, try it one more time. And keep doing it and keep waiting.

        99 times out of 100 you will eventually get the city without destroying it -- unless it is a Zulu city, in which case it is better to exterminate than occupy anyway.
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        • #5
          Death to the zulus long live the Mongols..... i just destroy whatever gets in my way unless the city is extremely important .....

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          • #6
            Every time you kill a unit in a city without walls the population drops by one.Walls prevent population loss when battles are lost by defenders.
            The only thing that matters to me in a MP game is getting a good ally.Nothing else is as important.......Xin Yu

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            • #7
              Ah. Okay. Live and learn. Ta.

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              finbar
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              " ... and the following morning I should see the Boks wallop the Wallabies again?" - Havak
              "The only thing worse than being quoted in someone's sig is not being quoted in someone's sig." - finbar, with apologies to Oscar Wilde.

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              • #8
                You can use this situation to your advantage sometimes. Wiping a city off the map doesn't give the attacker any techs - he must march into a city to pick up one of your techs. So if you stuff an unwalled city with a number of units equal to its size, the opposition can't capture it - only destroy it (this doesn't help against diplos & spies, of course). Conversely, it can work to your advantage as the attacker to leave city walls in place, or to thin out the population with air and sea attacks, if your goal is to occupy the city.

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                • #9
                  The same thing that DaveV brought up is also useful if a city with a wonder or two is about to fall early in the game.

                  Any wonders in a city that is destroyed are also destroyed. Don't know how many times I've burnt AI cities to the ground when I wanted to conquer them and their wonders...

                  Good to know for both attackers and defenders.

                  Carolus

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