TIP: How to stop parasite colonies (Archipelago)

[Greyhawk1]

Dont you just hate it when some civ plonks a city on the one exposed tile in your entire empire? It aggravates me no end.

Anyway - here's what I do to stop it happening. I place a single unit on any coastal tile that its possible to land on bordering my Empire's Island. As borders grow I put the units now on safe tiles back in my cities. Always remember the diagonal though. You have to put a unit on each tile including one on the apex of tiles that zigzag. I belive you can do the same thing with outposts but its expensive.

That way they cant plonk a city there. I also do that with tiny islands to prevent invasions. They can only attack with Marines (or Viking Berserkers) then so the island city is pretty safe until late game.

Probably pretty obvious but I thought I'd add it anyway.

 

[Shillen]

Good tip. I always want to do this but I never have enough units to do it and not willing to pay the unit support cost of building more.

 

[GeneralMcArthur]

That is a good strategy, but only for some relatively small empires. When taking over an entire civ that was very large, all the culture borders are minimized, and all the beaches uncovered. So the result is that one has to cover ALL those beaches, which in my case, I would have had to cover all the beaches of NORTH AMERICA. Extremely tedious and costly...

 

[Greyhawk1]

Originally posted by GeneralMcArthur
That is a good strategy, but only for some relatively small empires. When taking over an entire civ that was very large, all the culture borders are minimized, and all the beaches uncovered. So the result is that one has to cover ALL those beaches, which in my case, I would have had to cover all the beaches of NORTH AMERICA. Extremely tedious and costly...

Its only of any use on Archipelago maps and only for your own territory. In wars its not advisable to have units stuck out in the open like that Pangaea maps are nigh on impossible to completely seal off unless you have a choke point as the only access to your territory.

I hate my Island having parasite colonies...its really annoying so I always use this tactic to stop them until my culture borders start to fan out.