Ok, thanks all.
But can someone please explain how the Apostollic Palace/United Nations work? I was playing a game (noble), and all of the sudden, Lincoln won a diplomatic victory in the 17th century because of the Apostollic Palace...
Another time, when I built the U.N., the same poll would be repeated everytime, without someone winning anything...
I read guides but they confuse me even more
If Isabella capitulated to you, then you're stuck with her and she with you until and unless her land and population both exceed 50% of yours. You cannot declare war on her to take Madrid back as long as she's your vassal. You could try gifting cities back to her until the land and pop requirements are met, along with aggravating her so she'll break away as soon as she's able. Then swoop back in with your army and wipe her out completely, which is probably what you should have done the first time.
Thing was, Madrid had a lot of Wonders in it. Before my war with Isabella, I was practically in last place. Once I took this city, I was in first place, and I vowed not let it fall to Spanish hands again. Although after it reverted to Isabella I didn't suffer by score (perhaps power). I foolishly saved the game after capture.
An excellent point--going back and replaying with a significantly different strategy is an excellent way to learn and get better at the game.
But the resource has to be within your boundaries, right? Otherwise any faction can claim it.
In that case, I guess it was pretty dumb of me to build a base close to the snow next to 2 silver resources, because it isn't growing.
Just to clarify: to be accessible to your civilization a resource has to (a) be within your cultural boundaries, (b) be improved with either the required tile improvement (a pasture in this case), a fort, or by having a city founded directly on top of it, and (c) have a "route" from at least one of your cities to it. This route can take several forms (rivers, coastline, etc.), but the safest bet is a road linking the resource tile to your nearest city.It doesn't need to be, but it's safer to be so.
I'm not sure what you're referring to here.
First, you can't build camps outside your borders--though that may have changed in one of the expansion packs or patches, which naturally leads to the question, which version of the game are you playing? And even if you build forts on the fur tiles, they still won't do you a lick of good if they're outside your borders.Building fur camps outside of my cultural borders. Maybe it's because it's really late and I'm forgetting things.
