Hello everybody. Something unexpected happened in my latest game and I wanted to share:
Lhasa and Tyre are two militaristic city states that are very close to each other, (their borders are touching), but they aren't issuing any demands that the other be destroyed - they'd both rather focus their hate on Edinburgh and Belgrade who are on the opposite end of the continent. So, they're friends, right?
Enter Genghis Kahn at the head of a Mongol horde. He takes Lhasa for his own while he retreats from a Greek onslaught. Tyre - allied to Alexander - goes on the offensive and, while Genghis is distracted, rids Lhasa of his presence. Shortly thereafter, Genghis is defeated.
Now, when a city state takes a city, they normally raze it and go on their merry way. But, obviously, a city state cannot be razed - so Tyre occupies and puppets Lhasa instead. There now exists a super-city state, a "city+1 state" if you will.
I would have thought Tyre would liberate Lhasa, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Lhasa and Tyre are two militaristic city states that are very close to each other, (their borders are touching), but they aren't issuing any demands that the other be destroyed - they'd both rather focus their hate on Edinburgh and Belgrade who are on the opposite end of the continent. So, they're friends, right?
Enter Genghis Kahn at the head of a Mongol horde. He takes Lhasa for his own while he retreats from a Greek onslaught. Tyre - allied to Alexander - goes on the offensive and, while Genghis is distracted, rids Lhasa of his presence. Shortly thereafter, Genghis is defeated.
Now, when a city state takes a city, they normally raze it and go on their merry way. But, obviously, a city state cannot be razed - so Tyre occupies and puppets Lhasa instead. There now exists a super-city state, a "city+1 state" if you will.
I would have thought Tyre would liberate Lhasa, but that doesn't seem to be the case.