Hi,I am danuis.

I played Civilization IV for a long time.I learned that the best tips to war,if you can handle it,its to Surround a enemy city.Rarely,do they give in-but kill all the roads coming in,the food,and you have a clean capture.

To me,its like this,mostly

-Surround the city,all the squares around it.
-raze and destroy all the roads coming in
-raze all crops,mines,and valuable items.
-From there,you can-
1-wait till the city is on fire.
2-attack it.

1-this method is a simple one-Use siege engines and the like to bring the defenses down,use them to take off units,then finally,attack when the city is weak

2-this is a short one,but bloody.A all out attack by all surrounding units,which do the same you mostly do-kill them all,take or raze the city,and move on.Best to keep a few units behind to make sure AI settlers don't come to rebuild a city.Cause they DO that:king:

I don't really see how this helps anything, cause unless you're talking about giving reinforcements a hard time by removing roads, damaging the plots around a city does not make it easier to take. In fact, it makes it less good after you capture it.

Also, what you advocate is quite the opposite of what loads of people call the Stack Of Doom. You weaken your units that way and use even more time to take a city.

All in all, I don't see any argument to do as you say. Could you tell me if I missed something ?

Oh, and welcome to CFC :dance: :band: :banana:

Sounds like it'd take a terribly long time as opposed to the standard method of simply walking up to the city with your stack of doom and capturing it. Crippling the city by cutting its access to resources doesn't actually make it any easier to capture anyway... you'll hurt the city sure, but that was gonna happen when you took it. Razing everything won't lower its defenses or weaken the units inside... in fact it gives the city more time to build/whip more.

Typically you want to capture the city in one to do turns. No need to spread out your army. If your seige takes longer than that to lower defenses you probably aren't bringing enough.

Plus if I plan on keeping on expanding my empire there (even if I want to raze and resettle) I prefer to not pillage anything but strategic resources, it means I have to do less work rebuilding later.

I usually never pillage except for key resources such as oil or iron ect ect. Its seems a bit slow and i would rather just throw siege weapons at the city then attack. Its much faster and saves time rebuilding the city if i am going to keep it

Are you playing BTS?

If so, use your Spies to cause immediate unrest, then attack.

Welcome to the Forums danuis. :beer:

I agree with all the advice here. If you spread out your units, they'll die much easier than if you kept them in one stack. Also, I would never pillage a city that you're planning to keep, as it will take much longer for the city to be profitable for you. Only pillage those cities which you don't plan to or can't capture to hurt your opponent. The way you propose would take way too long to be effective.