Razing Cities

[JeffHogan]

I've noticed that in multiplayer games, whenever capturing a city, the window displaying the opition to either occupy or raze that city does not appear (Just like every other popup doesn't show up).

So, the only way I've been able to raze cities is using the abadon city option, which is pretty annoying because that means I have to actually hold the city for 2 or 3 turns; which is quite hard to do with a quick attack force like Calvary.

Does anyone know of a quick way of getting rid of cities?

 

[WildFire]

You have to abandon it and that takes 1 turn, not 2 or 3.

How to get rid of it before its re-captured?

Bring some defensive unit to the war...

 

[JeffHogan]

Actually the turns it takes to abandon a city changes with the city size. A small city will take one turn, but a larger one will take two. The 2-3 number comes from the turn of taking it over: one turn to take it over, choose to abandon it, then one more turn = 2.

The only reason I brought this up was because, in a recent game, I used a quick attack force of calvary to get into an enemy's territory before he could move his units around to garrison the city I wanted to destroy. It was a stretch to hold the city until I could get it rid of it with only offensive units to defend it.

 

[WildFire]

You can always move you're guys out of the city and give it to the AI or another player.