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Destroying a civ in a turn?

Kinniken

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I've heard people speaking of destroying a civ in a turn in the modern age, and I used to do it in Civ2, but I can never seem to manage it in Civ3 for one very simple reason: I cannot use the AI's railways, meaning that if one of his city is 4 square deep inside his territory, even modern armor will not get it.
Anyway has a trick to get pass that?

I suppose I could alway try and get a RoP first, but then that usualy works only once...

TIA,

Kinniken
 
The initial attack is difficult. But there is usually some place where you can get to a city on the first turn, though (especially if your border cities had high culture, so your borders are close to their cities). Don't raze the city, because that city's area you can use it's railroads to proceed to the next town. This is really effective when the AI builds it's cities close together, if it spaced them farther apart, the strategy won't work quite as well, but most of the time the AI doesn't build them more than four tiles apart. If they are three tiles between each city, when you claim the first city, it's border closes the gap to two squares.
 
First, get a right of passage treaty with a civ then move all your modern armour etc. along the civ's railways until they are right next to the enemy's cities, but dont attack yet. Now declare war and take every single city in one turn!!!!!:) :) :)
 
Sometimes You can build a city right on his border to get that extra square inward toward his city. Then armor might be able to get there.
 
The tricks are: fast units, ROPs, simultaneous coastal attacks.

Still, it`s hardly doable with empires of the circular, continental kind. I do it often to civs with strung out lands, island nations and so on, but when the country is 3 cities deep I need to break a ROP (or time it carefully) to get a one turn victory.
 
Its rare to destroy a civ in one turn but it is possilbe. Usually you can destroy 80%-90% on the first turn with an overwhelming force of modern armor, then because of mountains, tundra, or islands you finish the job on the next couple of turns. This is about the only way to conduct war as a Democracy, get it over fast so war werriness doesnt kick in.
 
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