Culture flipping instead of conquering?

[Archbob]

So I wonder if this was possible. Your basically playing one city for the most part without checking the one city challenge option and using only default settings.

Basically a good stone with stone/marble is pretty much required here, I prefer Elizabeth with financial/Philo as the main traits for the GPP points and extra cash from tiles.

So basically you start off by building a unit or two and switch immediately to stonehenge and only build workers settlers after you go stonehenge. You want to be located in a decently central position on a Pangea map so you can have other citities to influence with the massive culture coming from you central city.

In OCC, I've been able to managed to flip 2-3 cities every time but since its OCC, I can't keep them. Anyone use this means of expansion instead of building settlers?

Culture flipping cities allows you to concentrate far more on infrastructure and allows you to tech and build faster is what I've found and its actually pretty decent for a mid or late game conquest/domination victory is what I'm predicting because culture flipped cities are already operating at a decent pace and your central city or two are just complete unit farms.

 

[Bleys]

There is a game somewhere, and RPC or an SG, cant remember, but the rule was you had to win by Domination but you could not send military into enemy territory. Every tile had to be won with Culture only. If anyone knows where that game is, please link it because I have searched, but I am not using the correct parameters.

 

[Archbob]

Well, the tactics here is to culture first flip a couple of cities and since now you have the infrastructure, its easier to conquer. I'm trying this under prince/monarch first on standard world map. Small map would make this quite easy.

 

[Bleys]

Yeah, my bad, I didnt really reply to your query.

For me, the answer is sometimes. I have been known to plant a city near an AI city I want to flip, because flipping it will give me faster access to a better city.

I love the culture-war game myself. One of my favorite leaders to do it with is Zara. His UB may seem redundant for a CRE leader, but in reality, its a tile-winner. I remember the PYL: Zealot game, where I played Zara, and started right next to Sury. That Steele won me so many tiles that I was easily able to 1-time Sury in many places (1 move gets me next to his city, or even better, I can attack from my own territory).

 

[Gumbolt]

On my Sitting bull xbow game I had the Germans offer me a city as a tribute. He had laid it right on the border of my city with 2-3 wonders in it.

All in all i have not had/seen many cities flip due to culture. I think this happened more in Civ 3.

Even culture bombs dont always work here.

 

[assass1n]

Maybe this was the game
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/pahatty_1.html

 

[VoiceOfUnreason]

Maybe this was the game
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/pahatty_1.html

Good call, but I'm guessing what he was really after was RB29 - Cultural Extermination

A Team
B Team
C Team
D Team

 

[Abegweit]

Well, the tactics here is to culture first flip a couple of cities and since now you have the infrastructure, its easier to conquer. I'm trying this under prince/monarch first on standard world map. Small map would make this quite easy.

Can't be done the way you want it to happen. Look to the links to see what actually works. It's all about settling aggressively next to the AIs.

 

[scsabres2011]

D Team

Mind. Blown.

 

[Archbob]

Actually I'm playing prince standard size world pangea, its working pretty well. I had marble to start. I've already flipped 4 Indian cities and about 2 more are in revolt. I've flipped the better half of their empire.