Vassals don't help Conquest Victories

[gdgrimm]

Just a note...

You cannot win a Conquest Victory by forcing all other civs into capitulation. You actually have to fully destroy them to get a Conquest Victory.

I guess that might be rather obvious to some, but yesterday I was playing a game driving to Conquest (i.e. razing a lot of cities), and thought that by accepting capitulation from the last civ would finish the game. Unfortunately, it didn't (and I still didn't have land for Domination Victory). So I went back to an auto save and ingnored the Capitulation request.

On a somewhat different note...

I was playing the game as Augustus Ceaser of Rome. When it finished and I got to the HoF screen that said my 'leadership ability is as good as Augustus Ceasar', I thought, "well, of course it is! That's who I am, silly!"

 

[WonderPup]

Did you play out the rest of the turn? I have won a Warlords game by conquest by forcing all living Civs into capitulation. (I eliminated one civ early, and forced the remaining 5 to capitulate.)

This was a conquest victory, not a domination victory--I didn't have the requisite land yet, either. I do recall having to play out the next turn, though, before it would count the conquest victory.

 

[Proteus]

Perhaps some of his vassals were peacetime vassals and not vassals he got through a capitulation

 

[Gnarfflinger]

I've never gained a Peace time Vassal. I destroyed two civs and forced the other two to capitulate, and I did get Conquest...

 

[martine]

You have to play a trun or two first and then you get the victory, I think it gives the vassal states a chance to free themselves for a turn before victory is awarded. I just won my first conquest victory using a early Keshik rush as the mongolions, I had Tok and Mansa as vassals as their remaining cities where on some isalnds. When I finnished off brennus I was expecting the victory to come straight away, but it need a turn or two to kick in. My fist Julius Ceasar award as well, I had some Ceasar salad to celebrate