What's your favorite thing to do with spies?
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Darth Fred
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4 very fun/strong things to do with spies in the right contexts:
1. Support city revolt right before attacking it (removes defenses for 1 turn)
2. Steal technology
3. Poison the water supply and sabotage all health buildings. The city will starve at pop 1.
4. Spread culture destroys AI culture press and can overwhelm tiles.
1. Support city revolt right before attacking it (removes defenses for 1 turn)
2. Steal technology
3. Poison the water supply and sabotage all health buildings. The city will starve at pop 1.
4. Spread culture destroys AI culture press and can overwhelm tiles.
MarkJohnson
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I'm still new to the espionage game, but a few things I do with spies are.
I spread culture to border cities I plan to attack so they have less revolt time after capture, and occasionally I get no revolt at all when captured.
I sometimes revolt cities before attack like others to save bombarding cities defense. A revolted city has 0 defense.
I fortify a spy in my border cities to help prevent spies attacking my cities.
I sometimes use spies to scout the enemy when attacking them to find where their units are located.
My new favorite thing is building The Great Wall and getting a couple great spies very early in the game and steal techs. I can get 10+ techs with two great spies. I never seem to have luck with stealing techs afterwards as it's so expensive. But early stealing is so much better than trading as you don't help out the other AIs and it slows them down a bit while you move ahead.
but most games I don't build spies and save my points to watch their research and see what their cities are producing.
I spread culture to border cities I plan to attack so they have less revolt time after capture, and occasionally I get no revolt at all when captured.
I sometimes revolt cities before attack like others to save bombarding cities defense. A revolted city has 0 defense.
I fortify a spy in my border cities to help prevent spies attacking my cities.
I sometimes use spies to scout the enemy when attacking them to find where their units are located.
My new favorite thing is building The Great Wall and getting a couple great spies very early in the game and steal techs. I can get 10+ techs with two great spies. I never seem to have luck with stealing techs afterwards as it's so expensive. But early stealing is so much better than trading as you don't help out the other AIs and it slows them down a bit while you move ahead.
but most games I don't build spies and save my points to watch their research and see what their cities are producing.
freestyle604
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I use my spys for destroying buildings mainly city walls pre-gunpowder, or culture producing buildings. I now use them for revolt to remove the culture defense (I didn't know that until about 2 weeks ago). I keep a few in my culture to help prevent other spys from hurting my Civ. I use a few for spreading culture for cities that touch my culture. I haven't seen it help to flip a city but you can take away BFC squares which will hurt their city. Destroying oil wells or luxuary resources if they don't have too many or if my fighters from the carrier cannot reach them.
I would prefer to keep my espionage points to see their cities (and investigate) but if you fall too far behind you cannot keep up. Even if you start taking cities the amount needed never seems to go down.
I would prefer to keep my espionage points to see their cities (and investigate) but if you fall too far behind you cannot keep up. Even if you start taking cities the amount needed never seems to go down.
ParadigmShifter
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I still think perving is the best.
Look at this girl, if she was wearing a leather catsuit and shades (and hadn't been caught - don't call yourself Anna, noob)
Look at this girl, if she was wearing a leather catsuit and shades (and hadn't been caught - don't call yourself Anna, noob)
What happens if a city is starving at pop 1?
Clam Spammer
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It just sits there with 1 pop and no food.
My preferred use of espionage is just to accumulate points and get line of sight over AI lands. I guess I'm just lazy
My preferred use of espionage is just to accumulate points and get line of sight over AI lands. I guess I'm just lazy
Darth Fred
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I still think perving is the best.
Look at this girl, if she was wearing a leather catsuit and shades (and hadn't been caught - don't call yourself Anna, noob)
Yeah well, I generally like my spies to be more... oh what's the word I'm looking for... competent.
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ParadigmShifter
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Sexy > competent
Darth Fred
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My first instict was to respond "Tell that to the four the Russians released." I stopped myself because I'm not on one of my political rant forums so I cede the point.
Sexy > competent
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