City Flipping

[macthegoalieciv]

Hey guys! I had a question about city flipping because I just can't seem to flip one of Ghandi's cities. Do you have any tips for flipping cities (besides sending missionaries, closing border agreements) ?

Thanks for helping

-Mac

 

[SamSniped]

erm...neither of those help...
you flip the other city when your culture per turn in a city is way higher than the culture per turn of an adjacent and enemy city, I think.
Welcome to the forums, we won't eat you

 

[elohssa]

Use spies to spread culture to that city. Of course it only works if you already have some cultural presence there.

 

[cain3456]

It also helps to have more culture as a whole than your neighbor. If your borders are already up to the city, spies and culture bombing to expand the borders will help. Just keep an eye on the city. When it has more of your culture than his, there is a chance of revolt. After a couple such revolts, the city will flip.

I rather like this mechanic, as flipping is rather difficult and takes effort. Also, if it's done to you, you don't lose units (talking to you, Civ3).

 

[GGracchus]

Your cities surrounding Gandhi's city need to have a lot more culture than his city if you want to flip. If you can get the tiles around the city to become mostly your culture, you're close.

 

[Skallagrimson]

Culture war against Gandhi isn't optimal, as he likes to spam religions and artists. He needs war to make his legions of creative minions sing in your language.

 

[GGracchus]

Culture war against Gandhi isn't optimal, as he likes to spam religions and artists. He needs war to make his legions of creative minions sing in your language.

Now that you mention it, a better way to deal with it is to build the 10 HA/30 cavalry/whatever the current attacking unit is in a decent number and go him

 

[AlphaShard]

I've had some tell me it's possible to flip Capitals and entire civs, I personally think it's BS has anyone seen this? It does seem alot easier to just build an army.

 

[The7Sins]

I've had some tell me it's possible to flip Capitals and entire civs, I personally think it's BS has anyone seen this? It does seem alot easier to just build an army.

I've done it before a long while ago. To bad I didn't know how to take screenshots back then -_-. I flipped Paris in a game with me as Germany. I having previously conquered England was pumping out loads of culture from 3 sides and eventually Paris flipped and I get the message.
The French Civilization has been destroyed!

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

I've had some tell me it's possible to flip Capitals and entire civs, I personally think it's BS has anyone seen this?

It's not impossible to flip a capital, but it's usually very difficult just because they've been producing so much culture for so long. Somebody a few months back set up a Duel Pangaea 18 Civs game with Always Peace. Start as Louis in the middle, goal was to cultureflip every single other capital city and win Conquest without war.

It does seem alot easier to just build an army.

Typically the preferred method.

 

[AlphaShard]

Can I get a link to that game? I almost feel like you have to WB yourself some GA's to get that done. I'd really like to see a civ culture flipped out of existence.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Can I get a link to that game? I almost feel like you have to WB yourself some GA's to get that done. I'd really like to see a civ culture flipped out of existence.

Here's the thread. I did about four different searches trying to find it with no luck. What my searches finally turned up was a comment about it by the guy that came up with it- in another thread about five days ago. Whatever works, I guess.

 

[AlphaShard]

I bow to your superior Google-fu skills! Thanks! My own searches had only brought me to this thread, hence me posting here.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

I believe the term you're looking for is "sheer stupid blind luck". Thank the RNG.

Oh, I mean you're welcome. Happy Culture-conquesting... Conque-culturing... Culturonquering... whatever, have fun.

 

[macthegoalieciv]

Thanks for all the help guys! I did flip it eventually, with the help of a great artist and the awesome masterpiece

 

[AlphaShard]

Culture bombs for the win!

 

[twansalem]

I've had some tell me it's possible to flip Capitals and entire civs, I personally think it's BS has anyone seen this? It does seem alot easier to just build an army.

Yeah, it's possible. This is the game mentioned in another post. Note that it's on Settler difficulty. Here, take a look:
Always Peace Culture Challenge

The link is the same as the one a few posts up. I must have missed it earlier.