[R&F] Tactics to keep hold of conquered cities

[ackoman]

Hi

Just playing my first game since the update - enjoying it so far! But I've just captured a city on a differnt continent and I just can't work out how to get loyalty high enough quick enough to keep hold of it. I put a governer in there (Amani?) and that slowed the loss of loyalty down but not enough - what else can you do to improve loyalty in captured cities?

Thanks,

Ackoman

 

[Craig_Sutter]

Buy a monument and granary. Haevest wheat and jungle for quick pop. Some policy cards boost governor loyalty/troop garrison loyalty (some sperfically for nonhome continents). If possible, have amani (promoted) in a city at most 9 hexes away and a different governor in the captured city.

 

[aimlessgun]

+3 amenities is 6, gov is 8, policy cards can be 2 for a governor and another 2 for a garrison, garrison in occupied city is 5, vs occupied city -5 and pop pressure probably -20. So really your options are to delay with a governor while you take their closest most populous cities to relieve pressure. If you can get it down to -6 you have 9 turns to before it flips back, plenty of time to get another city or two.

Annoyingly if they already have a monument you can't rush buy the repair. But if they for some reason dont have one that's another 1 loyalty.

 

[isau]

If you are the Mapuche, killing off a couple of enemy units in the territory before city capture I think helps with this. I've never flipped a city entirely, but it does seem to help make the city easier to hold onto.

Also sometimes you're just going to want to forget loyalty entirely and just raze the place.

 

[Disgustipated]

You mentioned you captured one, which is a problem. Ideally capture 2, or better yet 3 so they help reinforce each other. Or just take all their cities. After taking the first one, put a governor like Victor or Amani in it (or any governor in a pinch), keep a garrison in it, get monument as soon as possible. I usually don't have to run the 2 policy cards to raise loyalty, but if nearby civs are in a golden age you may need to. You will probably still lose loyalty, but you have time to get that 2nd city. Go for nearby high population cities, raze them if you don't want them.

 

[Craig_Sutter]

I sometimes take an inner city of theirs first... raze it, and backward conquest your true target...