The Enemies Capital.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by Zachriel
That's what Napoleon thought when he took Moscow.

Yes, but that's an extreme exception. Kutusov and the other Russian commanders knew that Napoleon was severely extended, and let Moscow be a trap for him. They figured he'd try to make that final push which would over-exert his army, and after Borodino Napoleon was done. The same kind of thing could be done in the game, if capital cities held some value.

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Trip

Yes, but that's an extreme exception. Kutusov and the other Russian commanders knew that Napoleon was severely extended, and let Moscow be a trap for him. They figured he'd try to make that final push which would over-exert his army, and after Borodino Napoleon was done. The same kind of thing could be done in the game, if capital cities held some value.

I believe that the loss of the capital is historically decisive for a different reason -- culture. Generally, cities like Paris or Berlin contain most of the industrial, commercial and cultural capacity of the civilization. They are "super cities" (which are not as well represented in Civ3 as they were in Civ2).

[Jon Shafer]

Well, either way, capturing the enemy capital (in the vast majority of cases) had severe ramifications for that country. In any case, it's not represented at all in Civ, as are so very many other things... oh well, back to EU2.