Did I make a mistake or not

[sealman]

In my latest game, I had the Americans up against the wall. One city left with my army closing on and my navy off the coast. Lincoln comes to me and asks for peace. He was going to give me 80 gold and 33 gtp. I turned him down and whipped him out taking a mere 120 gold.

I am thinking that I should have accepted the peace treaty but my warmongering way got the better of me.

 

[Dell19]

You probably did the right thing beccause it stops Lincoln attacking later when you are not ready, stops him from running away to colonise miles away and stops him from getting other empires to join the war against you...

 

[Zachriel]

It depends on whether you are trying to merely enforce your own despotic rule over the entire globe, or if you are trying to make a better world.

Conquest is easy, ruling is hard.

 

[No.Dice]

With one city left, Lincoln wouldn't have been much of a threat. Better to keep him alive and extract gold from him every few turns. After you wiped out his treasury with the peace treaty, i doubt he would have had enough money to sway any powerful civs to ally against you.

More likely the other civs would have approached him for an alliance if they were warring with you, but hes not a threat anyway.

Unless he controlled some luxaries and/or strategic resources in that last city, better to keep him around.

 

[Mr Spice]

I would have tried to renegotiate and squeeze out not only the money but also a tech or two (if he had any).

 

[Dell19]

One problem would be that cities may flip back to him if you leave him alive...

 

[DancesWithGoats]

You did the right thing.