If I remember right, the newest patch made it so you couldn't take policies without founding a city, so I think maybe they thought of this possibility.
Carthage, the undefeatable civ
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If I remember right, the newest patch made it so you couldn't take policies without founding a city, so I think maybe they thought of this possibility.
Flying Mathias
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Can Helis take cities? If so, you could still capture it, it would just take a long time.
fuzzatron717
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well obivlivsly it doesn't take long before you get a couple policies and I always found my capital when i start. so need to worry about founding your capital. or if your refering to a second city you don't need to found a second city before or after the patch.
Well yeah, but the topic of the thread is the undefeatable civilization, and for that to be the case the capital would have to be the city surrounded by mountains.
fuzzatron717
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If you my prevouis posts you will see what I am talking about because they were also talking about how you need a great general to get over the mountains and I was suggesting the quickest way to do it.
A Rabid Dopsis
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That, at least, is not a hole in my plan. Helicopters are strong fast and fun but they cannot take cities.
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I feel really stupid now... I didn't know you could wipe cities off the map with nukes in Civ 5. I have used them to take cities often and in multiplayer often. But never did I know if you dropped them 3 times at once the city would simply be razed. Wow... I feel really stupid right now. This adds a whole new level for strategy for me 
I feel really stupid now... I didn't know you could wipe cities off the map with nukes in Civ 5. I have used them to take cities often and in multiplayer often. But never did I know if you dropped them 3 times at once the city would simply be razed. Wow... I feel really stupid right now. This adds a whole new level for strategy for me
Indeed, any city less than or at 4-pop can be wiped out completely with a single ICBM.
The rest takes 2, 3 or even 4. The best kind of city obliteration is when you catch 3 or 4 cities in the same ICBM blast radius and just nuke repeatedly there.
e: atomic bombs and nukes are far more important now to manage happiness issues in conquering spree.
Flying Mathias
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Which is kind of odd. I'd imagine using a nuke should give a huge boost to negative happiness.
Bomb shelters are a new building in G&K, so it has to be seen if things work the way you think.
why?
You are clearing out entire segments of potential rebels whenever you nuke a hostile city or five, making way for less resistance to your eventual takeover.
Then you just use more nukes. Not that hard, and I wonder if faith will allow me to purchase nuclear missiles...
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This just in: The Pope supports the use of Nuclear Weaponry!
Raiki
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Hmmm, I think we may have just stumbled onto the (in game) reason that Carthaginian units cannot cross mountains until after spawning a GG. I can only imagine the fan-rage that would occur when people realized that Carthage was unassailable. 
Raiki
Warlord
Not that bad, actually. Admittedly, it's anecdotal evidence, but I've seen it at least 3 or 4 times.
Baleur
Prince
You guys ever considered that civilian units (or just the settler as an exception) might NOT get this promotion?
Just as workers / settlers don't get the Medic promotion.
Just as workers / settlers don't get the Medic promotion.
Workers and Settlers get the Embarkation promotion though.
Flying Mathias
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Well, I'm sure that some in your own empire wouldn't be too happy that you killed millions of civilians, even if they are the enemy, and I don't think the city that got nuked would be very happy that you killed everyone's mother/father/aunt/uncle/sister/brother/ etc
Autocracy
e: you might have a case if this was Freedom
e2: they won't be too happy, but there's only so many of them, and people like to live
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