1 Square Island Cities

[Seeker]

How do you capture them? In a custom map, a 1 square island with some good resources like whales, etc nearby will sometimes get a city.

Bombarding with ships or planes can't kill the defenders, so you can't unload and occupy.

What do you?

Do you just have to wait for Marines and forget about it until then??

Please tell me, they are using the whales I want...

[Haphazard]

You could try diplomacy. Give the Civ involved a good scare (or kicking) then demand the city as the price of peace. Or try more peaceful trading if this isn't possible.

[Dominator_Jones]

That's what I ended up doing. Just kicked around the offending kingdom and demanded that city in return for my leaving them alone.

[SofaKing]

The other option is using the espionage propaganda route. Other than that, yes you have to wait for marines. I use to build 1 square island cities in SMAC, for the same reason. The AI was never able to deal with them.