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6/2/2007 8:30 PM


WE WILL DESTROY YOU

WE WILL DESTROY YOU

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In my most recent game, I was set to capture the Azteca capital on a neighbouring continent. It was a rather large city, size 16, and I happened to have a Great Artist recently become available. I had already taken two neighbouring Azteca cities, so I had troops on the ground, and the sea lanes were cleared, so I figured, what the heck, I positioned a transport with the great artist and some defensive regiments on it next to the capital so that they could enter the city right after it fell.

It fell, I sent in the transport, unloaded the Great Artist and did the Culture Bomb. So what. Who cares. Well, the city itself, which, after capture, had a resistance factor of 9 turns, immediately became pacified. That is to say all resistance immediately disappeared. There would be no rioting, nor waiting 9 turns to begin production. Assimilation, induced by the culture bomb, was immediate, resistance was indeed futile.

This phenomenon may have been reported before on this site, but I did not see it, it was new to me, so I thought I'd share it with those who may be unfamiliar with it.

Cheers.

6/2/2007 9:57 PM


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Wrong

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Zone mentioned it here, after I had been complaining about invading a foreign continent.

That's a good tip though...
3/18/2008 2:00 PM
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I've dropped culture on my own civ from time to time, and on a close neighbour if I take it. One application I hadn't considered was this:

If you can take a capital BEFORE taking it's other cities, would dropping a Great Artist in and building a masterwork not help you push your own culture out to your opponents nearby cities? Assuming many AI surround their capital with their smaller, less cultured, cities (I see that a lot), couldn't you start to push your culture on those cities due to the significant boost you get?

Oddly, I seem to get Great Prophets way more than Great Artists, so the option only tends to come up when I beat people to Music tech.

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