Has it always been possible to pillage citadels?

[Velvet Elvis]

I left a citadel on one border of my civ unmanned because I needed every unit I could spare to fend off the Japanese who were attacking from the opposite direction. While I was focused on the battle with Japan, a barbarian warrior walked up and stomped on it. The citadel is still there. It's just ugly and smoking. Workers can't seem to repair it and I can't remove it. I don't know if it still has any defensive effect or not.

Is this new or have I just been lucky thus far?

 

[GAGA Extrem]

It was also possible in vanilla, but the AI rarely did it.

 

[Dryhad]

Workers can't seem to repair it

That's odd, I managed to repair one with a worker.

 

[GAGA Extrem]

That's odd, I managed to repair one with a worker.

Aye, the AI burned down one of my citadels yesterday - I had no problem fixing it.

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Workers on auto won't fix it it seems. It turns out they did when directly commanded.

 

[Callonia]

Yes, I stomped undefended russian's citadel like a hour ago with a landsknecht. Serves her right for stealing a couple of my hexes.

 

[KnelRivendare]

yes it was always pillagable, but concerning the new Citadel system i think its all in all a pretty cool thing but as i see it now that "Culture Bomb" effect isnt eraseable at all, not with pillaging nor with occupying which is imo pretty odd if i just think about how frakin many GG i get in a common game.

other thing if you would change the rule.

<Row>
<Type>IMPROVEMENT_CITADEL</Type>
<Description>TXT_KEY_IMPROVEMENT_CITADEL</Description>
<Civilopedia>TXT_KEY_CIV5_IMPROVEMENTS_CITADEL_TEXT</Civilopedia>
<ArtDefineTag>ART_DEF_IMPROVEMENT_CITADEL</ArtDefineTag>
<BuildableOnResources>true</BuildableOnResources>
<DefenseModifier>100</DefenseModifier>
<InAdjacentFriendly>true</InAdjacentFriendly>
<CultureBombRadius>1</CultureBombRadius>
<CreatedByGreatPerson>true</CreatedByGreatPerson>
<NearbyEnemyDamage>30</NearbyEnemyDamage>
<PortraitIndex>35</PortraitIndex>
<IconAtlas>TERRAIN_ATLAS</IconAtlas>
</Row>

you could kinda make Colonies with Citadels to get resources without building a actual city. but i think thats the wrong forum to discuss modding stuff

 

[PhilBowles]

It was also possible in vanilla, but the AI rarely did it.

I had the AI do it in vanilla and didn't realise it - I thought it was a bug that the citadel had stopped damaging enemy units...