Has anyone else adopted a schorced earth policy?

[shinkicker]

 

[eviltypeguy]

You pillaged everything too? Now that's just spiteful

 

[madscientist]

In my current game I played as Montezuma on a Fractal map. Got all but one leader on the same land mass. I intended to fight in order to get Culture but found I was overrunning the continent with Jaguars and a few support archers using only the Honor social path. The world eventually rebelled against me and I am currently using Swordsmen, Pike, and chariots archers to kill everyone. At first I thought this was good as a good old fashioned dog-pile would teach me a lesson: However, I RAZED everything except the manditory Capitals which are giving enough resources to keep happiness acceptible. At the moment I only have the Japanese guy to kill but I am having a problem locating him at the moment.

All in all, I find war in this game redicilusly easy (at King level). Sure I can up the difficulty but I recall at Prince or Monarch in Civ IV there was no way I could come close to doing this (Nobel I could do a warrior rush on ONE leader).

SO yes, a scorched earth plan works in this game.

I can't wait for patches to improve the AI's warring abilities

 

[H4run]

sell it to other player it give u more benefit in both happiness penalty. Give u an addtional lux, gpt, and creating world conflict on culture border by siding different AI side by side, and provoke aggrsive AI to declare war. In no time u can retake it again.

what is it call? conflict management?

 

[shinkicker]

You pillaged everything too? Now that's just spiteful

I prefer to call it "Inhibiting the AI", since I had no need nor intention of settling there and if the AI wanted to, let THEM repair all those improvements

 

[Jharii]

I puppet a city until it begins to build something stupid, then I step in and annex it. By that point, I'm prepared to take it in and the city has built up enough population to build a courthouse in a relatively short amount of time.

I typically raze cities only as a counter to an AI attack on me. Rather than taking the city as a puppet, I need a bit of a buffer zone from their attacks. Razing the city offers that.

 

[IgnatiusTBarfat]

I prefer to call it "Inhibiting the AI", since I had no need nor intention of settling there and if the AI wanted to, let THEM repair all those improvements

LOL. Your shots make me laugh. The burning countryside above and a shot from you in a another thread where you nuked Baghdad:

Sit on your allies resources to block their workers.