How you make a city split from it's civ?

[Henry II]

Hi. I have been playing CTP for several months now and half that time, I don't even know what I'm doing!

All I know for sure is that for the first 3000 years or so, I'm way behind. But I usually catch up to my most powerful opponent when I sack their city with the Edison Project. They retaliate with their big guns and war-walkers. But I find that I can neutralize just about any of their units with my low tech stacks of musketeers and cannons. (Stacks of fascist also rocks!) But all toll, it becomes a very time consuming battle before the enemy will accept the loss and call for peace.

What I want to know, is how do you make your opponent's city uprise and to form a new civ? (I'm reckoning you have to set the number of players higher first?) Because I don't have very much success regardless of how much money I have.

How much does your enemy happiness count for? And how do you lower that happiness without terrorist?

Thanks in advance!

[Frozzy]

Spies and Abolitionists and Clerics.

Spies are expensive, but if you build them and get them next to a city, you can induce a revolution in that city.

Abolitionists are cheaper (IIRC) but only work if there are slaves in the city.

Clerics only work in a theocracy. If you soothsay, you can reduce the happiness of the city, and it's pretty cheap. One of my favourite strategies is to get around 9 clerics, send them to the cities capital and make it so unhappy they revolt.

Hope this helps

[Henry II]

wow, that really works?! thanks! I'm going to try that.

[The Humble One]

Here's another question concerning inducing a foreign city to revolt. I've tried numerous times using a Spy in MedMod4 to forment a revolt, and have never been successful! Occasionally the Spy will be caught, and it costs me money every time. What tactics can increase the chances of a successful revolt? Do I need to use more than one Spy in a turn? Do I place offensive units in a tile within the city's range (which I would think would lessen the Spy's effectiveness!)

Any ideas would be welcome. I find that the Stealth units are really useful, but this one just doesn't seem to work for me.

[blackice]

Well Fuzzy has the right idea going but understand the more units etc the enemy has the less likely the chance. Go after the little citie in the later stages of the game.

[TheBirdMan]

I have read somewhere back in time, that the chances of success also depend of how happy the city is.

So soothsay the city (that uses to be fairly easy) before you use your spy.

If it work, pls let us know.

[Pave]

Can you spilt enemy city to a new civ?
Why no one said that to me before?


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