Basically , do you ever use overwhelming culture on your border cities ( perhaps with some spy assistance) to flip enemy border cities to your control?
I find this a very successful tactic with my new favorite leader , Pericles ( Cre/Phi) . Don't get me wrong , a lot of conquest domination still requires war which I am more than ready for but you can also get a good amount of cities by culture flipping .
AI and I have a few bordering cities . I do the following .
- Make missionaries to convert the cities to my state relig for better flipping success .
- Caste system , have at least one , maybe two , of my cities concentrate on artists specialists to increase the chances of a GA . Having the PHI trait is nice for this too along with GP boosting buildings and Pacificsm .
- Be the first to music for a free GA .
- I usually have a couple , sometimes more GAs by the time I'm ready to start flipping .
- I go to my border cities and drop culture bombs with teh GA . Basically this culturally ' chokes' the enemy border cities making them more pissed at their AI ruler for not being able to grow because lack of a decent ' fat cross'
- Basically when I go over the plot the enemy city is on with my mouse , and see its like 88% Greek( me) and 12% Arabian ( AI) I know its almost flipping time.
- Prior to the flipping , I up the amount of espianage ( sometimes I'll generate a Great Spy and send him on a mission too , though this is later in the game).
- Train a few spies , just incase the initial mission fails .
- I instigate a revolt .
- The city ends up flipping to my control , I immediatly up its culture out put to maximize space availabe in the fat cross . Sometimes I'll even have a GA again and culture bomb it if neccessary .
- Repeat process , I end up ' engulfing' like a growing cultural blob a few cities .
Once I did this to Catherine , I even flipped her second largest city ( ST petersburg) and ended up getting the Great Wall and Colossus for my troubles .
I did it without sending one single troop ( aside from the spy) .
Lots of times I don't even need spies , especially if they are weaker cities .
I find this a very successful tactic with my new favorite leader , Pericles ( Cre/Phi) . Don't get me wrong , a lot of conquest domination still requires war which I am more than ready for but you can also get a good amount of cities by culture flipping .
AI and I have a few bordering cities . I do the following .
- Make missionaries to convert the cities to my state relig for better flipping success .
- Caste system , have at least one , maybe two , of my cities concentrate on artists specialists to increase the chances of a GA . Having the PHI trait is nice for this too along with GP boosting buildings and Pacificsm .
- Be the first to music for a free GA .
- I usually have a couple , sometimes more GAs by the time I'm ready to start flipping .
- I go to my border cities and drop culture bombs with teh GA . Basically this culturally ' chokes' the enemy border cities making them more pissed at their AI ruler for not being able to grow because lack of a decent ' fat cross'
- Basically when I go over the plot the enemy city is on with my mouse , and see its like 88% Greek( me) and 12% Arabian ( AI) I know its almost flipping time.
- Prior to the flipping , I up the amount of espianage ( sometimes I'll generate a Great Spy and send him on a mission too , though this is later in the game).
- Train a few spies , just incase the initial mission fails .
- I instigate a revolt .
- The city ends up flipping to my control , I immediatly up its culture out put to maximize space availabe in the fat cross . Sometimes I'll even have a GA again and culture bomb it if neccessary .
- Repeat process , I end up ' engulfing' like a growing cultural blob a few cities .
Once I did this to Catherine , I even flipped her second largest city ( ST petersburg) and ended up getting the Great Wall and Colossus for my troubles .
I did it without sending one single troop ( aside from the spy) .
Lots of times I don't even need spies , especially if they are weaker cities .