Ruins of a city

[Inverse Icarus]

oh. i really hope i can destory cities. should be fun.

there ahs to be a check on it though, or else i would take a babylon city and burn it to the ground that same turn, effectively destorying a city without worrying of it being taken back.

in civ2 conquered cities i took were always made "beeyatch" cities. they pumped out war units until the war was over, and then produced settlers until they ran out of food. then i would have them build colluseums, which i sold each time they completed. (100 gold each time )

[lockstep]

Originally posted by Ralf
The idea of "instant mass-exoduses" becomes too inflationary and potentially loophole cheatable, I suspect.

I agree. On second thought, 'expanding the city radius a la CtP2' came to my mind.

You can simply torch the city yourself rather then give it to the enemy (scorched earth-tactics). This cant be done instantly though. It should take at least 1 full turn between decision and execution (and maybe only possible with small/medium-sized cities).

Two suggestions:

- You should get 'refugees', i.e. settlers for half of the city´s original population (e.g. torching a size 8 city should result in 2 settlers, each worth 2 pop points),

- Torching a city with 'major' wonders should count as an atrocity. (Aside: No one has confirmed this, but I believe the concept of 'atrocities' a la SMAC is already included in Civ3.)

[Ralf]

Originally posted by UberKruX
oh. i really hope i can destroy cities. should be fun.

What about below wicked strategy (in case you missed it):

Either that, or you can also conquer a city - sell out its city-improvents and forcefully evacuate its population (by settler/workers), and allocate these pops along your own established cities. Or use them to populate small hastly founded cities & work-colonies in desolate parts of your empire. Like Stalin did.

Oh God, I already feel two horns slowly growing from my forehead. Think of the evil-spirited possibilities.