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Has anyone ever had a city in a foreign democracy flip to you while you were in Anarchy? This happened to me in my current game. Playing as the X-Man in a standard map 1.29 Regent game, I started with a continent to myself. That is a situation I usually give up on as soon as I figure it out, because you get a massive and almost unsurmountable tech hit. However, having gone for it once in a similar position and achieved a diplomatic win without engaging in a single war, I decided to go for a conquest win from an equivalent starting position. As it turned out, the nearest continent was close enough for a suicide galley to cross to, so I wasn't alone long. Amazingly, I was on par with the neighbors in tech, and well ahead in population and land area. At this point I had about 75% of the continent under territorial control. The portion not yet settled was at the opposite end of my continent and seemingly safe from the neighbors until Navigation. Three leisurely produced settlers would get me the entire island all to myself. Or so I thought. The Chinese were able to sneak a galley in and dump Macao on a one-tile peninsula right at the edge of the continent. Bah. An annoyance, but I made sure the city couldn't grow by strategically locating my final two cities close enough to snag all the available territory. Wait a while and get the Macaoans to flip. Well, they did, but it took forever - about 1500 years. But when it did, I was ahead of everybody in tech, culture, wealth and power, but preparing to go to war with the English by switching from Democracy to Monarchy and consequently in a state of Anarchy. The Chinese were number two in just about everything and in Democracy themselves, and I expected nothing for a while, but lo and behold, here comes Macao, begging for annexation. Too cool, and really rare, I would guess.
As for progress on the conquest win - I'm well on the way, first by a mile to Tanks and merrily rampaging along.
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