How do you split a civilization?

[Le Petit Prince]

by Starlifter:
Really? Wow, I've never seen that one. Do you remember any other details of how you got is, like was the spy approaching an enemy city, or was it an Advisor, or just a "random" popup, or what? No big deal, just interesting.

yes it was in a scenario...The scenario that is the replica of the Earth's civ in 2000...I was the American and I was in war with the russians...At sometimes a random popup screen appeared to tell me that if I took the russian capital the Empire would split...never did..but it was on an easy level one of my first game...

I dont know why but I split a civ every 2 months...Because every time I stab a civ in the back I start to attack their capital and it works 1/5

 

[starlifter]

by Le Petit Prince:

At sometimes a random popup screen appeared to tell me that if I took the russian capital the Empire would split...never did..but it was on an easy level one of my first game...

OK, thanks. I've split lots of empires, esp. when playing OCC or very small empire vs. a big world. When the AI is ripe (enough size, gold, distribution, etc.) and I'm weak... when the dominant AI's capital goes, so goes the winds of revolution and insurrection.... but I'd never seen an advisor before, since it's a level-related thing . Thanks!

by Sodak:

Many players report only witnessing civ splits several times in several thousand games.

Most humans dominate the AI, and so the correct conditions rarely arise. But when the conditions are in place, it is repeatable and odds seem to be 100% from my own informal testing over a year ago. I'll be sure to check out what the Apolyton guys have discovered when I can get thru to their web pages (which is pretty rare for me, presumably because of the overloaded Apolyton server ).

 

[jc011]

i have personally only done it once. It was a long time ago,(well not really) when i was playing on Cheiftan, i took the carthage capital i think and it turned into Carthaginians and Sioux, i believe. Anyway, funny to mention this, in my most recent king game, the indians were split by the english into Indians and Chinese, although both were destroyed. :crazyeyes

 

[Daaraa]

Thanks for all the help!

Played my first OCC game.
I won but didn't do well but I noticed I have to chage a lot of my tatics.

I also waited until an AI destroyed another AI (That was entertaining to watch ) and then I split the victors empire. The French were fighting the Indians. (Why couldn't it have been the Mongols) They made peace in two turns, allied in a few more and then tried to attack me.

Just quick about OCC games, how do you avoid getting a second city when you are attacking the AI?

 

[Sodak]

Either don't attack, or in the version of bloodlust OCC, you must disband that captured city a.s.a.p.

 

[Daaraa]

What is the quickest way to disband a city?

 

[starlifter]

What is the quickest way to disband a city?

I use gold... I RB a settler/engineer every turn until it is gone. I don't like to waste citizens by starving them... I'd rather have th engineer. I rename my cities something like this, to help identify engineers that need resupporting before the city is killed (and so I know the city is SUPPOSED to be killed between turns):

London

becomes:

xLondon (or x-London)


Be sure and resupport the supported units before you actually kill the size one city .

 

[jc011]

there was another way i heard from smash, turn all the citizens to specialists, and let it starve down to 1, then build a settler/engineer.

 

[Daaraa]

I've usually done what Smash\JC011 talked about.
However, I think I like the idea starlifter had.
At least then I could get some units to help out.
By the way, I've enjoyed reading the previous posts starlifter has written and archived in a few recent posts. Thanks.