Is it possible to win a Religious victory with some else's religion?

[TimTurry]

Let's say you don't have a religion. You take over a country that has one. Does it then become your religion? Can you then win if you spread that religion to half the globes' civilizations' towns?

Harder question: What if you already have a religion? Can you win a victory if for each civilization, more than 50% of their cities follow your original religion, or the one you got by concurring? (sum of 2 religions)

Goofy question: Let's sat I have 20 towns, the only opponent left has 30 towns, but 6 of them follow my religion, and 24 follow his. Can I donate 19 of my cities (with my religion to him), making his total 49, with 24 following his religion, and 25 following mine? Then my 1 remaining town would win a religious victory?

 

[GKShaman]

For some reason the religion in the religion screen is tied to a CIV founder. Even in a game where I wiped out Spain''s religion I found it was still tied to Spain and said 0/8 civs converted.

This leads me to believe that one can only win religion if they found.

To the goofy - If the opponent has 24 cities following his religion - there needs to be 25 cities following urs. So the 6+19 would yield 24. I think u need OVER 50 percent so 1 more.

Realize though in Civ6 now one has to ACCEPT deals now, unlike Civ5 where one can just send stuff. So too suspicious for multiplayer.

 

[Siptah]

this was confirmed before the release by the devs, when many people wanted to know if Kongo can win a religion victory at all. No chance, you have to be the founder and current owner of the holy city in order to win.

 

[TimTurry]

6+19 = 25
Yes, they have to accept, so it is really hypothetical, but I assume they will accept. Although I just had a country not accept free spice for the next 30 turns.

 

[Browd]

Let's say you don't have a religion. You take over a country that has one. Does it then become your religion? Can you then win if you spread that religion to half the globes' civilizations' towns?

Harder question: What if you already have a religion? Can you win a victory if for each civilization, more than 50% of their cities follow your original religion, or the one you got by concurring? (sum of 2 religions)

Goofy question: Let's sat I have 20 towns, the only opponent left has 30 towns, but 6 of them follow my religion, and 24 follow his. Can I donate 19 of my cities (with my religion to him), making his total 49, with 24 following his religion, and 25 following mine? Then my 1 remaining town would win a religious victory?

It does not become your religion, even if you conquer the other civ's holy city and eliminate that civ from the game.

You can only win religious victory by having a majority of your cities following a religion you founded (so any cities you conquer that have a different religion, or no religion, need to be included in the computation, and each other major civ must also have your religion in a majority of its cities. Again, since there's not concept of an "adopted" religion, the religion of the civ you conquered is just as much a "rival" religion as any other religion on the map.

Your goofy scenario probably works.

 

[GKShaman]

oh wow silly me yes. that would work. Ive had the AI not accept gifts too. Interesting development their trying to do with diplomacy. I hope they patch and improve it well.

 

[TimTurry]

Thanks for the replies. Too bad you can't adopt a religion, after the owner "had an accident."

 

[Siptah]

Thanks for the replies. Too bad you can't adopt a religion, after the owner "had an accident."

There's a reason for that. You could just wait for a civ to get really, really close to winning a religious victory and than snatch its holy city and win otherwise.

 

[TimTurry]

In my scenario, you'd only have the victory if you wiped that civ and owned its capital + holy city. This seems only right. After all, now you are the religion's owner.