What to do with all your captured workers...

[Matrix]

So, I've destroyed the enemy completely and left an apocalyptic kind of field behind. Then what better can you do with all the captured workers than getting every resource there is?

And this is just a part of the land.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Be sure to show us an "after" picture too, when barbarians use the railroads to kill all of your colonies in a couple of turns. That's what happened to me when I built so many undefended colonies.

 

[Tassadar]

I taught it was impossible to make colonies with captured worked, i ll try next time i got a chance thanks a lot

 

[Alc0p0pz]

Umm that map looks familiar ... Looks like Liz is dead, then ...

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

just keep them. Settle the land and PRESTO you`ll later have lotsa pollution - good to have those workers to clean up!

 

[Matrix]

Originally posted by Alc0p0pz
Umm that map looks familiar ... Looks like Liz is dead, then ...

Sssst...

And it was just a few turns before I finished, so it didn't really matter. So you don't have to come with "but you should have...".

 

[Dominix]

Hehe, I don't know about you guys but after usually after conquering 2-3 civs, I find that 80-90% of my workers that I use are captured (% goes higher if I conquer more civs).

 

[Dinorius R.]

You could force them all into a specially constructed ghetto and kill them all. Then when the UN comes accusing you of war crimes, just deny it, or say you were acting in self-defence, they weren't workers they were terrorists.

 

[john heidle]

If it's very late in the game, transport the captured workers to your cities and add them to the population for a higher score.
Just put one in each city in case they 'carry' discontent with them.

Earlier in the game I will often add my workers to my cities which will save 1 coin per turn maintenance in republic or democracy.
Then I end up working with just captured workers which have no maintenance costs.

 

[God]

Originally posted by Dinorius R.
You could force them all into a specially constructed ghetto and kill them all. Then when the UN comes accusing you of war crimes, just deny it, or say you were acting in self-defence, they weren't workers they were terrorists.

How true.

I don't bother to build too many workers. Build a few earlier on but into industrial times i have about 15 home made workers and about 200 or so foreign ones.

 

[Dinorius R.]

Dear God,

Nah, I don't have any rational reason, I just enjoy mass murder...

While I think about it, I guess a legitimate tactical use could be to line your sensitive borders with unwanted and homeless workers and station them there using the Shift-Y command (wake up when next to an enemy). They would act as an auto-alert for enemy incursions into your country and would most likely get killed (oh, OK, captured - but certainly tortured) in the process. Which serves my original purpose of causing maximum pain and suffering but saves me doing the dirty work.

A line of undefended civilians is also like a red rag to a bull for AI civs. It might be a good way of enticing them to declare war on you (giving your people a morale boost if you're a republic or democracy, I think).

Hmmm, must try this next game.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by Dinorius R.
Dear God,

Nah, I don't have any rational reason, I just enjoy mass murder...

While I think about it, I guess a legitimate tactical use could be to line your sensitive borders with unwanted and homeless workers and station them there using the Shift-Y command (wake up when next to an enemy). They would act as an auto-alert for enemy incursions into your country and would most likely get killed (oh, OK, captured - but certainly tortured) in the process. Which serves my original purpose of causing maximum pain and suffering but saves me doing the dirty work.

A line of undefended civilians is also like a red rag to a bull for AI civs. It might be a good way of enticing them to declare war on you (giving your people a morale boost if you're a republic or democracy, I think).

Hmmm, must try this next game.

hehehe
wonderfull idea!

 

[dikwhit]

I have my own little use for the captured workers after the first 50 or so. I like to call it deathcamping. You know those cities that sit forever as size 1 w/ a wonder in them after you capture them? Send captured workers there..... disband em. 2 free shields each
May not seem like much but between captured workers/artillery you can build a lot of improvements.

 

[Grey Knight]

Wouldn't a better solution be to "deathcamp" them by adding them to the city? This will help run down the "oppression" timer, no? And since you can only starve off 1 person at a time, if you add 5 the first one added will cut 5 turns off the timer...

Cheers,
Shawn

 

[Rydbeck]

I just disband them and pretend that my death squadron of Marines made the job..

 

[Rain]

I have used them to blockade civs i have rops with to keep that rop one way only. If the civ has been completely destroyed they are good to add to cities, since they dont get that agression prob.

 

[dojoboy]

During war, I move newly captured workers around in the enemy's territory. This reduces the severity of his counter-attack, because his first priority is to regain his comrades. This can go on turn after turn --- very effective (for me).

 

[God]

Well in my recent game i was at war with India and captured tons of workers from razed size 25 cities and stuff and the Indians nuked 2 of my cities. One small one that i took from the English(liverpool) and one of my big cities, size 26, pretty productive, and both were nuked by ICBM's.
I don't know why Gandhi didn't just nuke my capital and another big city but anyway i took those Indian workers and made them rebuild the roads and clean the pollution. "Your guys made this so you have to clean this up".

Ofcourse i nuked India immediately after i rushed 2 ICBMs for 2000 and took out Delhi and Bombay. Then with tactical nukes took out another 2 cities.

 

[D. Boon's Ghost]

I usually slide the excess workers into my capital and hold slave auctions. To the highest bidder they go.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Originally posted by dojoboy
During war, I move newly captured workers around in the enemy's territory. This reduces the severity of his counter-attack, because his first priority is to regain his comrades. This can go on turn after turn --- very effective (for me).

also, while still at pecae, you can change every tile improvement, then build forts and stuff them full of infantry. That really breaks up enemy troop movements once the ROP is cancelled and war declared....

If you have like 3 Inf in a foort, add a few arty pieces. Now his troops won`t even get to the border unhurt