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3/23/2007 8:22 AM
Settler

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I was wondering, some time ago I had a savegame where almost all the wonders were in one foreign city, Washingon. Evil American ***s, they were safely located on an island of the coast of the pangea, huge culture but almost no military.

We, the Russians (always the Russians...) thought of capturing this city by brute force and sign a peace treaty asap afterwards. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and the savegame got corrupted (I think due to the settler-in-a-boat crash...) and I never got to it. Has anyone tried something similar? I was just wondering if this was just a funny thought or a real playable strategy.

Plus, once, when I was only 10 years old, I was playing Civilization I and I captured a capitol and the nation split up in two different nations (I thought into Aztecs and Americans). Can/ does this happen in CivIII?
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5/8/2007 2:36 AM
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It would probably be a waste of time, because their culture would cause them to 'depose of your governor' anyway.
...meaning they'd kick you out of their city once peace was declared.
You have to knock off a border city first.
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5/8/2007 3:09 PM


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Civs in civ 3 don't split when you capture their capital.

It's been a while since I played, so I don't remember the diplomacy aspects, but I agree with above - get border cities.



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5/8/2007 4:40 PM


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It would probably be best to burn the wonders if you were going to try this... 

IF you had to keep them,  you would have to take all the cities but the Capital around the capital, slowly work on their Russian culture and then take the capital...  which would then have to be starved down to next to nothing population and worked back up to a large Russian population...  I usually don't bother unless I really need those wonders.  Since this city isn't on the same landmass as you, some of the wonders will have no effect on your core cities, tough call...   I see Washington burning!



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3/27/2009 10:18 PM


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Yeah, I see what he means. As corruption is higher the farther away from the capital (I built a city on the other side of the map from my capital and it wasted 4/5 shields) I would also say cultural effect wanes of as you go further out from all the wonders. It's not worth it. Just wipe them out or don't bother, they will convert back to americans.


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