Civil War

[Palin]

Has anyone ever had a game in civilization II where repeatedly attacking a rival civilization (in my case wiping out their capital, waiting a few turns for them to relocate and then wiping out the new capital) led to a civil war in that civilization? I don't think I've ever read about it in the files, but I distinctly remember it happening. There were about six Chinese cities left and suddenly civil war broke out and three of them became Indian (complete with color change). It'd be nice to know if this was just a fluke or what.

 

[Panzerking]

I have heard of it mentioned on here a while back but it has never happened on any of my games. Which is a shame because it would be most cool.

 

[Ace]

You need the right conditions for it to happen. There has to be an open slot for another civ to appear, ie. you can only have 6 active civs, and you need to be "weaker" the the civ you are trying to split.

 

[Palin]

you need to be "weaker" the the civ you are trying to split.

I don't know about the 'weaker' part. I was basically leaps and bounds above all the other civs at that point (I was at a stage where I wanted to find out how high I could score on a given level and was at one of the lower levels).

 

[funxus]

I don't know about the 'weaker' part. I was basically leaps and bounds above all the other civs at that point (I was at a stage where I wanted to find out how high I could score on a given level and was at one of the lower levels).

I agree with Ace, I've heard the same conditions.

This can easily be tested using an old game in cheat mode...

 

[dpaajones]

This has happened quite a few times when I've played CivII, especially in the later stages of the game when there are only 3 or 4 civs left. A large nation will divide into two via a civil war and usually one side will become your ally in crushing the other side. Quite a handy feature really...

 

[RoboPig]

once i took moscow and the russians went into a one turn civil war. the rebels were funded by india and joined them and the loyalists were left with 2 cities

 

[Skyer]

In the recent Deity+256 game French(AI) attacked Spanish(AI) and triggered Civil War 4 times.

First, appeared Spanish ans Sioux.

Then Sioux were immediately destroyed.

Then appeared Spanish and Indians.

Then Spanish were destroyed.

Then after capturing Indian capital appeared Indians and Egyptians.

 

[Sub]

A civil war occurs when you capture an AI's capital that is ranked higher than you are in the power graph. There also needs to be less than 7 AI civs left in the game.

 

[Skyer]

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