choose not to conquer?

ackoman · Jan 28, 2016

Hello

When you attack a city and move one of your units into it, you get the "raze, puppet or annex" question and a warning that you will get a warmongering penalty. But, once you've got to that point, is there any going back? Can you decide to leave the city alone and not get any penalty?

Thanks,
Ackoman

kamex · Jan 28, 2016

No. Once you capture a city by attacking it with a melee when it has very low hp, there is no going back, you must choose. I think all three options carry an equal warmonger penalty.

ackoman · Jan 28, 2016

kamex said:
No. Once you capture a city by attacking it with a melee when it has very low hp, there is no going back, you must choose. I think all three options carry an equal warmonger penalty.

OK thanks - seems to me that it would therefore make sense for the warning about warmonger penalties to be given just before you capture the city, not after its too late to do anything about it.

beetle · Jan 28, 2016

Isn't the warmonger penalty warning displayed only before you conquer? There is a mouse-over message when you hover your cursor on the city.

If you want to avoid it, only conquer cities that used to belong to someone else -- so you get “liberate” as one of the options.

ackoman · Jan 28, 2016

beetle said:
Isn't the warmonger penalty warning displayed only before you conquer? There is a mouse-over message when you hover your cursor on the city.

If you want to avoid it, only conquer cities that used to belong to someone else -- so you get liberate as one of the options.

I've only seen the warmonger message once the conquering has been completed and your asked to choose what you want to do with the city.

Browd · Jan 28, 2016

That warning is present before you attack. It is, of course, easy to ignore/overlook, but it's there.

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