Do you give mercy to enemy civs?

[Gelion]

You are just paranoid

 

[Richard Cribb]

Mercy? Yes!
I come as a liberator, not an occupant...

 

[viper275]

It depends on why I fought in the first place. If I was attacking them for a resource and I get the resource, sure. Pointy stick? Okay. Just trying to cripple them a bit? Fine. Conquest victory? Of course not!

 

[bob rulz]

Depends. Often, I just leave them with their last two or three productive cities. Sometimes (especially earlier in the game), if they're getting too powerful, I'll build up a force of swordsman (or medieval infantry or knights) and head straight for their capital. Usually after their capital's taken they never recover...

Usually...

 

[rbis4rbb]

I was kind and left the Arabs Mecca. Next turn, they declare war on the strongest Civ, Siumeria. Also, I reduced Korea to a small 3 city empire and they declared war on me.

 

[Kalach]

3. Bring all workers to capitial
4. disband (exsacute) all of them

I Thought I was the only one to do public executions in my capitol

 

[dacar92]

I give mercy if they have les than a few cities left. I like to see the one city civs try to start a war with you later!

 

[Mewtarthio]

I generally kill them all, unless something really embarassing happens, like seeing my Knight, MedInf, and Crusader Stack O' Doom die killing a Spearman and losing a city that same turn. I don't commit public executions, though. I set the Workers to work improving my empire. If there are foreign nationals in a city, I clap 'em in irons and set them to work. If a have a massive surplus of slaves, I'll often ship them off to some desolate, two-tile Tundra island that I only have on the offchance that there might be Oil there sometime. Sometimes I build my Forbidden Palace on their former capital, as a way of mocking them (Behold! Your once-great Capital now serves the Persian Empire!).

 

[philippe]

I give mercy to those who plea and obey me by giving all their cities,including their capital

 

[mechoption]

I like to pummle them till they have a few outposts. Then I let my glorious empire swallow up their establishments as they are so in AWE of my culture they join me anyway !

 

[MrRats]

NEVER!!
.....unless they have more techs and gold than I do ......

 

[RegentMan]

It depends. If I started the war, I'll get what I want then make peace. But if they sneak attack me, I'll totally destroy them.

 

[citizen001]

i usually go for blitzkrieg war whenever i can then, when they are weak, i demand techs or money in return for peace. then i finish off the civ!

 

[rysingsun]

i show mercy whenever i can. for instance recently the germans were down to 5 cities and i was steamrolling them. i showed them mercy by offering peace if they would give me 4 of their cities. they did. i try to be merciful. well come to think of it i offered them 400 gold per turn to get that. that was part of my mercy. next turn i was feeling pretty poor though so i took their capital. come on now letting them live in that pathetic state would have been cruel. i had to show them mercy

 

[dgfred]

It depends. If I started the war, I'll get what I want then make peace. But if they sneak attack me, I'll totally destroy them.

That is how I do it too . In my current game as Celts I have watched
Rome and India duke it for many turns , they make peace and I see
HERDS of elephants headed my way . I'm not
real worried due to my 3 Armies (2 Knights and 1 Gallic Sword) and
loads of Ancient Cavs
defending my bounderies . What gets me is that I see them coming
and they have to cross some Roman territory to get to me??? If they still
want to attack when they reach my terr. I am going to them good.

 

[Zelda's Man]

If they attack me then they must die. If I started the war then I fight until war wariness gets too bad.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

Well, I don't burn their cities down, does that count as mercy?

About as much mercy as they'll ever get from me.

 

[SesnOfWthr]

The only times I show is mercy is if they can offer something for peace, or my units are getting thin.

Otherwise, I keep pressing on so I don't have to worry about flips and sneak attacks.

 

[Dragonlord]

I usually play on high difficulty levels with culture flipping turned off.

Limited wars are an absolute necessity at these levels since the AI always has far more units and production.
So I watch my reputation, only attack when there is no rep hit (even better provoke them into attacking), take 2 or 3 cities while whittling down their army in the field, then make peace for techs, gold or cities. Relatively safe from this civ for the next 20 turns, I turn to the next neighbor...

Engaging in total war with one civ only encourages other civs to stab me in the back while all my forces are committed and/or healing.

Of course, the apparent 'mercy' I showed is only a temporary reprieve - I'll be back!! Their total eradication is only a matter of time..